-Kansan photo by Ken Coy
THROUGH THE MUD-When the circus comes to town, rain makes it a difficult job of "setting up." When this truck was stuck in the mud about 25 men tried to push it out. After several unsuccessful attempts they gave up and called for the elephant. It was a pushover for the 55-year old elephant who weighs four and one-half tons and the truck is free. She didn't even have to try hard.
was free. She didn't even have to try hard
22 High School Pupils Receive Scholarships
Fourteen boys and eight girls, graduating seniors in Kansas high schools, have been awarded Summerfield and Elizabeth M. Watkins scholarships for four years of study at KU.
Music Program To Open Festival
The 350-voice University chorus and the 75-piece University Symphony orchestra, augmented by two brass bands, will present William Walton's "Belshazzar's Feast" at 4 p.m. Sunday in Hoch auditorium.
The production is the first attraction of KU's annual Music Festival which will extend through the following Sunday.
Reinhold Schmidt, professor of voice, will be soloist for the production, which is under the direction of Clayton Krebhiel, assistant professor of music education.
Passages from the Psalms and Book of Daniel form the text for "Belshazzar's Feast," which was first presented in the U.S. in 1933. Mr. Walton is an Englishman.
The secular work has three parts: the 137th Psalm; a narrative of Belshazzar's feast and destruction, and the praise taken from the 181st Psalm.
William Walton has gained fame for many works, one being a string quartet which was performed at the Salzburg festival of the International Society of Contemporary Music.
President Named For SUA Board
Other new officers are James Graves, engineering junior, vice president; Patricia Johnson, college junior, secretary, and Nancy Munger, college junior, treasurer.
Marilyn Hawkinson, college junior, has been selected president of the Student Union Activities board.
Officers were selected by the Student Union operating committee.
Corbin to Give Kid's Party
Corbin hall will sponsor a May Day party for the underprivileged children of Lawrence Saturday afternoon from 2-4. Twenty-five youngsters, whose names were obtained from the Douglas county welfare agency, will be entertained with games, and will be served refreshments.
The announcement was made today by James K. Hitt, Summerfield committee chairman, and Miss Maude Elliott, head of the Watkins selection group.
These scholars, chosen by competitive examinations from among 600 candidates nominated by high school principals, are selected on the basis of academic achievement, leadership, character, and promise of future usefulness to society.
The financial value of each award will be that amount needed to pay for a four-year course at the University beyond his or her family resources. Some scholars will receive 100 per cent help, others only the honor.
The Watkins scholarships are being awarded for the first time, having been established with a $5,000 annual contribution from endowments created by Mrs. Watkins.
The Summerfield scholarships are maintained by a $20,000 annual gift from the college of the late Solon Summerfield at Amus and New York, manufacturer.
David A. Horr and Joseph W. Robb,
Lawrence; B. Bishop and Donald
W. Martin, Emporia; Thomas L. Bryan
W. Morgan, Emma; Douglas S.
Krieckhaus and Douglas S. Wallace,
Topeka; Roger Lembek, Prairie Village;
Wayne E. Mason and Jame D. Uhlig,
Kansas City; Frank G. McKnight, Alma;
C. E. Murray, Lorraine, and Gary G.
Sick, Russ K.
Marianne Anderson. Lawrence;
Coley Harrison. Berkeley; Bowie;
and Patricia Hammussen. Wichita;
Conalyn Stayton. Winfield; Mary Swed-
king; Natalie Sandra. Salina, and
Sonja Swigart. Topkea.
The first Elizabeth M. Watkins
scholars;
Weather
ona Swigart, Topper
The 14 new Summerfield scholars'
Widespread sprinkles of rain occurred over most of Kansas last
night, but they were mere samples. Measureable rainfall amounts were 16 inch at Dodge City, .05 at Garden City and Goodwill Gallidol Topoka. Concordia, Olathe, Wichita a had traces. A thunderstorm, broke
MILD
storm broke at Emporia a f t e r
dawn. Forecasters said the weather would begin to clear late today and tonight, and a flow of drier air would enter Kansas from the west.
With Flags Flying -
Circus Wins Battle Against Rain, Mud
By RON KULL
Neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor fog stops the postman—or the circus.
And the workers of Hagen Brothers circus setting up the big top were ably proving that point this morning. It might have taken a little assistance from the circus' $ 4^{\frac{1}{2}} $ -ton elephant on mired-down trucks, but the poles were still going up despite the rain and mud.
The team of 80—50 performers and 30 laborers have been up since 5 a.m. preparing for the show in Lawrence this afternoon and tonight. The first poles for the 130 x 240-foot tent were erected
at 7:30 a.m. By 10:30 a.m. the laborers' job was done and it was up to the performers to carry out their end of the work.
The show travels in 35 pieces—trucks, trailers, and cars. Everyone in the caravan works. The men who set up the tent are either single or left their wives at home. For, as circus superintendent Paul Byle says, "we don't have room for anyone in the circus who can't work."
The circus is moving north and east from its starting point in Texas. After the hour-long tearing down operations after tonight's show it will move to Leavenworth and then to Kansas City.
Daily Hansan
50th Year, No.135
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Murphy Named Delegate To UN Health Assembly
Friday, May 1, 1953
Pach Withholds Initiates' Names
Pachacamac party last night held initiations to its Inner Circle.
Although the Daily Kansan asked for a list of the initiates to run in today's paper, top-level Pach executives said they did not think such publication advisable.
Farrel Schell, engineering senior and Pach vice president said he felt that publicizing of initiates would hurt their chances of being selected for certain positions in student government.
As a case in point, Schell cited the All Student Council's recent refusal to accept the nomination of Tom Van Bebber, first year law and college student, as a justice on the Student Court.
Van Bobber's appointment was opposed by about half the Council, because, it was said, he had taken part in a party primary. Certain ASC members such party association might indirectly influence his ability to remain impartial while on the Court.
Dr. Murphy commented that he did not have a passport or plane ticket, since all such arrangements will be made after the official White House bulletin is released.
"I cannot say what the work of the council will be, since all such news must be released from a government news source," the chancellor said. "I have not even been told yet who the other members of the delegation to Geneva will be."
Dr. Murphy also will spend some
This is the first of two European trips the chancellor will make this year. From July 8 to 18 he will be one of 10 delegates of the Association of American Universities at a meeting of the Association of Universities of the British Commonwealth to be held in Durham and Cambridge, England.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy has been named one of a three-member delegation to the forthcoming UN World Health assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.
Dr. Murphy is now in Washington D.C., for a three-day meeting of the American Council on Education's committee on institutional research policy.
In a telephone interview with the Daily Kansan this morning, Dr. Murphy said he would go to New York Sunday and from there fly to Switzerland to stay about three weeks.
Opera Tenor to Star In Year's Final Concert
Robert Rounseville, operatic tenor, will be featured in the final concert of the University Concert course at 8:20 p.m. Wednesday in Hoch auditorium.
Mr. Rounseville, a graduate of Tufts college, got his big chance in 1948 when Lazloz Halase, director of New York's City opera, heard him and immediately contracted him.
During three seasons at the City opera, Mr. Rounseville amazed critics with his beautiful voice, his faultless diction, and his ability to project the different styles of the operas in which he appeared.
As a climax to the 1951 season, he was chosen to create the role of the Rake in the world premiere of the Auden-Stravinsky opera, "The Rake's Progress," in Venice. He flew to Italy late in the summer of 1951, where he sang the Rake with great success.
In 1550, Mr. Rounseville was chosen to record the leading tenor role of Hoffman in the projected Alexander Korda technicolor movie "Tales of Hoffman."
Immediately after the final performance, Mr. Rounceville flew back to New York where he sang the role of Channon in "The Dybbuk"—a personal triumph for the young man called by one critic "The Premiere Tenor of 1951."
ROBERT ROUNSEVILLE
with symphony orchestras and in the Hollywood Bowl. Last summer, he returned to the operetta to sing the leading role in the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera presentation of the Broadway show, "Song of Norway."
Mr. Rounseville has sung in solo recital throughout the United States, and has appeared as guest artist
time surveying operations of universities in England and Scotland in July. ___
Reds Hold Sick POW's, UN Says
Panmunjom, Korea — (U.P.)—The United Nations accused the Communists today of illegally holding back at least 375 allying Allied war prisoners and warned that refusal to free them could wreck the armistice negotiations.
It was indicated that at least 160 of the sick and wounded men may be Americans.
Rear Adm. John C. Daniel told the Communists at a meeting of liaison officers that the UN has "indisputable evidence" that the Reds are holding more than 234 non-Koreans and 141 South Koreans, all fit to travel, who should have been freed under the recent exchange of sick and wounded prisoners.
Adm. Daniel said his evidence came from personal reports by freed UN prisoners who listed 375 allying men, all fit to travel, who were left behind.
A second threat to the negotiations developed at a meeting of the truce teams.
The UN proposed Sweden as a neutral country to take charge of the 46,918 Communist prisoners who refuse to go home but the Reds said that the custodian country must be Asiatic.
Professor Back from Tour
Dr. R. Q. Brewster, head of the chemistry department, will return to Mt. Oread Monday after a week's tour for the American Chemical society. Dr. Brewster has been on an inspection trip to accredit the chemistry departments at the Universities of Tulsa and Mississippi.
'Petticoat Fever To End Tonight
The last performance of "Petticoat Fever" will be given at 8 p.m. today in the Student Union ballroom.
The capacity number of 125 tickets has been given away for tonight's presentation. The tickets were limited to 125 because the arena theater is an intimate theater with the audience seated closely around the acting area, James Wright, graduate student and director of the play, said.
All seats were filled at last night's production. Free refreshments are served at intermission by the Student Union.
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