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Reds Fear UN Plan May Wreck Armistice
Panmunjom—(U.P.)The United Nations gave the Communists a detailed formula for ending the Korean truce deadlock today.
After hearing and reading it, the Communists said the proposal threatened to wreck the entire armistice negotiations. Under the UN proposal all anti-Communist North Korean prisoners held by the Allies would be turned loose in South Korea on armistice day as free civilians.
Wednesday, May 13, 1953
All anti-Communist Chinese prisoners would be freed after two months if they still refused to go home. Then they would be permitted to go where they pleased.
Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison, chief UN negotiator, handed the Washington-approved plan to North Korean Gen. Nam II, the Communist chief delegate, at a meeting in the truce hut.
Gen, Mark W. Clark, supreme UN Far East commander, brought the plan, a counter-proposal to the light-point Communist formula, to Gen. Harrison in a flight yesterday to the Allied base in Munsan.
"The Communists did not like it but suggested we meet again tomorrow." Gen. Harrison said after the meeting.
The UN truce formula contained 10 articles and 26 paragraphs in addition to a preamble. The Communist plan contained eight paragraphs which the UN considered vague.
The plan would turn over to a five-national neutral commission proposed by the Communists all Chinese prisoners who refuse to go home. India would serve as chairman of the commission and supply armed military police forces. Poland, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, and Switzerland would serve as commission members.
The Allied plan calls for repatriation within two months after an armistice of all prisoners who want to go home and release on the effective date of an armistice of all Korean prisoners refusing to be repatriated.
Under the Allied plan, the Communists would be permitted to interview the prisoners for two months to allay their fears about what might happen if they returned to the Communists.
Topeka — (U.R)— Lt. Gov. Fred Hall today was stripped of his power to appoint the new legislative council committees, and the job was turned over to a seven-man group.
Power to Appoint Taken from Hall
Fireworks popped at the opening session of the new council—split along lines of the old feud between Gov. Edward F. Arn and Lt. Gov. Hall, and their respective supporters.
The House members of the council largely are Arn backers, the Senate members Hall supporters.
Rep. William Ferguson, Wellington, proposed a set of rules to put the appointments in hands of a committee on committees. Sen. Sam Brookover, Eureka, called it an attempt to "purge" Lt. Gov. Hall.
Y. Regents Asked to Probe Firing
New York —(U.P).—The American Civil Liberties union asked the Kansas State Board of Regents today to give "further consideration" to the case of a State Teachers college professor who was relieved of academic duties because he signed a petition asking clemency for convicted Communist leaders.
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Construction work has begun on a new service drive and retaining wall at the rear of the Museum of Natural History to replace the old one cut off by construction of the new south Union wing.
Construction Begins On New Wall, Drive
Another sidewalk also will be constructed from the south cafeteria entrance to the Mississippi street sidewalk.
DINNER SPEAKER — Alvin S. McCoy, Kansas correspondent of the Kansas City Star, will address the Daily Kansan board's annual banquet Saturday night on "The Newspaper's Watchdog Role in Government." Preceding the talk by McCoy, who is president of the William Allen White foundation, awards for outstanding journalistic work by students will be announced. The Kansan board banquet in the Union will conclude the first annual William Allen White Editorial conference, a daylong program devoted to the community responsibility of the newspaper.
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Free Dance to Be in Union
Parade to Highlight Armed Forces Week
Navy cadets receiving awards are John E. Thomas, engineering senior; Edward C. House Jr., engineering senior; James Adair Ross, college junior; Kenneth E. Merrill, business senior; William D. Owens, business senior; Robert A. Galliart, engineering sophomore; John R. Esther, college senior; Lyle M. Jenkins, engni-
Armed Forces week will be highlighted here Friday at 3 p.m. when 1,800 Army, Navy, and Air Force cadets participate in the annual Honors Day parade.
Washington — (U.P.) Congress' economy drive slowed a bit today when the House appropriations committee approved a $3,444,145,000 treasury-post office money bill.
ASC Parades Resolutions In Last Session of Semester
The parade will act as a parting salute to Capt. William R. Terrell, retiring commander of the Navy ROTC unit. Capt. Terrell will act as the chief reviewing officer.
This was $127,983,000—or only 3.5 per cent—less than former President Harry Truman had requested in appropriations for the 1954 fiscal year beginning July 1.
It was only $4,955,000—or one-seventh of one per cent—less than the Eisenhower administration requested in its revised budget. And it was only $5,425,000 below the amount appropriated last year.
A free dance will start at 9 p.m. tonight in the Trail room of the Union. The dance is held each Wednesday night.
Friday at 10:30 a.m., Lt. Col. Neale Col. Lynn R. Moore, professor of air science and tactics, and Capt. Terrell, with the aid of a cadet from each of the three services, will give a half-hour program before an assembly of Lawrence High school students.
It was the fourth regular fiscal 1954 money bill to reach the House floor and the first in which the Eisenhower administration's appropriation requests had escaped almost unscathed from the committee's economy ax.
House Approves $3 Billion Bill
Two senior cadets, Mahlon Marsh Ball of the Navy and John Richard Transue of the Air Force will be awarded Society of American Military Engineers national gold medals for their outstanding scholastic achievement. There are 10 of these medals awarded each year in each of the three services.
Cadets to be honored at the parade Friday, besides Ball and Transue, are for the Air Force: George E. Colander, engineering senior; Darrell D. Kellogg, college senior; Richard R. McCall, business senior; William R. Hall, business senior; William G. Landes, business senior; Max H. Embree, college senior; Kenneth R. Bowen, college junior; Zenon S. Zannetos, college senior; Lynn R. Osborn, graduate student; James L. Houghton, graduate student; David A. Otto, college freshman; Frank S. Jennings, fine arts junior; George W. Lund, engineering junior; Hubert M. Dye, business junior, and Norman G. Wilson, engineering junior.
The measure on which the House will act later this week foreshadowed an inevitable sharp drop in the House's economy batting average.
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Those receiving awards from the Army unit will be John B. Musser, business junior; Christian J. Mann, engineering senior; Gale H. Cutright, college junior; Robert M. Worcester, engineering sophomore; Gerald C. Taylor, education senior; Glen E. Davis, engineering senior; Norman B. Gates, engineering junior; Jack L. Guyant, college freshman; Beverly D. Trott, engineering sophomore; Joseph E. McMullen, college freshman; Fred N. Mueller, engineering junior; Jonathan D. Nottingham, engineering freshman, and Theodore L. Sexton Jr., college freshman.
neering senior; Theodore Thomas Hogan, college junior, and Ben Phillips Jr., engineering junior.
Plans Being Made For 200-Man Dorm
Plans for a men's dormitory are being designed in the state architect's office in Topeka.
Site for the new 200-man building has not yet been determined. Test borings are being made to determine the condition of the bed rock of various locations.
The dormitory is expected to be three or four stories high, with a wing on each side of a dining and living room area. Each wing will house 100 men.
Weather
MIZZA ABUBBLE continue cold and cloudy today and tonight, but temperatures would not be quite so low in the northwest corner as last night.
er struck the western one-third of Kansas last night in an extraordinary but not unprecedented late spring th r u s t. Snow fell in the west late yesterday, and a light fall occurred this morning at Salina. Forecasters said
Rain Could Change ISA Picnic Location
In case of rain, the ISA picnic will be held in Robinson annex at 5:30 p.m., instead of at Lone Star lake as was scheduled.
--a parade of resolutions featured last night's All Student Council meeting, the last regular meeting for this semester.
Tidelands Bill Passes Congress
Washington —(U.P.)— The Tide-
lands bill, giving coastal states title
to offshore lands that may hold
fabulous oil treasures, won final
Congressional approval today.
The House approved the Senate version of the bill and it how goes to President Dwight D. Eisenhower for his promised signature.
The move eliminates the need for a Senate-House conference to iron out differences between the similar but not identical measures passed by the two houses.
The legislation giving coastal states clear title to the submerged lands within their historic boundaries is the most controversial turned out so far by the Republican-controlled Congress.
Backers—they came from both major parties—said it merely confirmed the states' title to lands they held until the Supreme court's "paramount federal rights" decision of 1947.
But opponents charged it amounted to a "giant give-away" of property which the court ruled belonged to all the people.
Mr. Eisenhower was certain to sign the bill into law. It fulfills one of his election campaign promises. But the fight will be carried to the courts where it may not be settled for years.
In addition to acting on the Senate measure, the House was expected to pass and send to the Senate its own follow-up legislation. This calls for federal development of resources in the submerged lands of the continental shelf, beyond the outer state boundaries.
Registration Starts For Western Civ
Students may register today through Friday for the Western Civilization final examination, to be given Saturday, May 16, at 1:30 p.m.
Registration is in the Western Civilization office, Strong Annex C.
--a parade of resolutions featured last night's All Student Council meeting, the last regular meeting for this semester.
Among the most important were resolutions providing that:
1. Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy be invited to address both ASC houses early in the fall, with the purpose of achieving a sounder relationship between the administration and the Council.
2. The Daily Kansan should not have its editorial policies influenced by any other agency except its own governing group, the Kansan board.
3. A committee should work to extend the deadline the Federal Communications commission has said will be the University's last chance to take advantage of the educational television channel being held for it until June 2.
4. A committee having at least one Jayhawker staff member on it should consider ways in which the book's coverage could be improved, the staff salaries reduced or eliminated, and the accomplishment of a more efficient organization of the book's administration.
In other business, both houses approved three persons to serve two-year terms on the Student court. They are Kay Roberts, college junior; Glenn Opie, second year law, and Donald Pearson, college junior. Thomas Van Bebber, college and first year law, was approved as prosecutor of the court.
In the House of Representatives, Dennis Henderson, college junior, became chairman of the committee on committees. Henderson's appointment might have been contested because there had been some misunderstanding, at the time of his approval, of the meaning of the phrase "approval must be by two-thirds of the House."
The Council's book on parliamentary procedure and the ASC constitution said the 8-0 vote for Henderson was sufficient to approve him, although eight votes is not two-thirds of the House membership.
The Senate elected Robert Elliott, college sophomore, as ASC treasurer. Jocelyn Dougherty, college freshman, was chosen president protem of the House.
Gallehugh Elected Phi Beta Pi President
Keith Gallehugh, education senior, has been elected president of Phi Beta Pi. medical fraternity.
Other new officers are Calvin Engelmann, college senior, vice president; Carl Ambler, college junior, secretary; Charles Schroff, college junior, treasurer; William Spomer, college junior, editor; Joseph Meek, college sophomore, librarian; James Peterson, college junior, chaplain; Harold Rinier, college junior, historian; Charles Deckhorn, college junior, song leader, and Ralph Sumner, college junior, honor guardian.
Inclement Weather Causes Late Senior Day Changes
The Senior Class day picnic, originally scheduled for South park, will be held in the Student Union ballroom at 5:30 p.m. because of bad weather.
All outside activities, except the Faculty Fossil-Senior all-star softball game, have been cancelled. Barring further rain, the game will be in South park at 7:30 p.m. today.
Charley Hoag, business senior, and Jerry Brownlee, college senior, will act as coach and manager for the senior team. Nino LoBello, instructor in sociology, will be the player-manager of the Faculty Fossils. Umpires for the game will be Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, and B. H. Born.
B. H. DUBE Starting at 1:30 p.m. today the seniors held an entertainment session in the Union ballroom. They are having bingo, dancing, a bridge tournament, and other activities.