Russia Backs North Koreans on Cease-Fire Move
London—(U.P.)-Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov said today that Russia supports the moves of the Chinese and North Korean Communists to end the Korean war.
Russia, he said in a statement broadcast by the Moscow radio, is ready to cooperate in the implementation of arrangements for a truce and an exchange of prisoners.
Gen. Mark W. Clark said tonight the United Nations command had taken Communist offers "in goo faith" and is "ready to proceed" in negotiations toward peace in Korea;
The UN supreme commander's
stagment to newmen in Korea followed a half-hour meeting of UN and Communist liaison officers at the truce village of Panumjom.
"We have taken them in good faith," Gen. Clark said, "and are telling them we are ready to proceed."
Gen. Clark warned however against expecting too much from the latest Red moves.
At the liaison officers meeting, called by the UN and the second since the Reds' agreed to exchange sick and wounded prisoners, discussion was limited to location of Red prisoner camps.
The officer did not directly discuss the exchange or the possibility
of resuming full truce negotiations.
"I think this is a good time not to be too optimistic or too pessimistic." Gen. Clark said.
"We're making all preparations and will be ready to go. We don't want to do anything to hold up the negotiations."
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov said in a statement—broadcast to the world by the Moscow radio—that he was authorized to announce his government's support of the Communist proposals.
They are for an immediate exchange of sick and wounded war prisoners, resumption of armistice negotiations, and the turning over to a neutral state of remaining
prisoners who do not want to be repatriated.
"The Soviet government. . expresses confidence that this proposal will be correctly understood by the government of the United States of America," Mr. Molotov said.
he said that the issue of Chinese Communist and North Korean representation in the UN, in connection with peace moves, is a "burning question."
The UN, he said, could do a great deal more if the "legal" Chinese representatives—the Communists—were included.
Mr. Molotov, in his length statement referred first to the Communist offer to exchange sick and wounded prisoners at once.
He reviewed the Communist statement that an exchange of sick and wounded "must lead to the unhindered settlement of the entire prisoner of war question and thereby to the achievement of an armistice in Korea."
Meanwhile, heavy clouds over North Korea cut Allied air action today and only minor clashes were reported along the 155-mile battle-line as UN troops waited for word from the "truce front."
"Ground fighting came to a near-standstill," said Gen. Clark's headquarters in its daily communique.
—Kansan photo by Bob Longstaff
RIGHT OVER THERE Dean Glasco, engineering junior, points out the way to the polls to Bob Damkroger, college sophomore. Watching the proceedings are Ed Moore, college junior, Gene Parker, college freshman, and Bob Worcester, engineering sophomore and ASC election committee chairman. Moore and Parker are poll watchers. Damkroger was the first student to vote in the primary elections today.
A Cappella Choir To Sing Tonight
A group of four folk songs and Negro spirituals will highlight the only campus concert of the University A Cappella choir at 8 p.m. tonight in Hoch auditorium.
Soloists for those numbers will be St.linda Stonemor, fine arts junior; Dale Moore, fine arts junior, and Nathalie Sherwood, fine arts senior.
The choir also will sing "Evening" by Kodaly, Suzanne Armenentrout, fine arts senior, soloist; "Credo" by Gretcheninoff, Harriet King, fine arts junior, soloist; "O Vos Omnes" by Vittoria; "Cantate Domino" by Hassler; "Motet, Op. 29, No. 2" by Brahms; or "Gladome Light" by Kastalsky; "Agnus Del" by Kalinnikof; "Faith Victorious" by Gretcheninoff, and "Transylvanian Lament" by Kodaly.
Med Center Slates Course
The Kansas forecast called for partly cloudy weather tonight and
Weather
A five-day post graduate course in diseases of the eye,ear, nose, and throat will be conducted April 6-10 at the Medical Center in Kansas City. Coronavirus tests will be voted to otolaryngology and the final two to ophthalmology. Wednesday will be divided between the two fields.
day. Lows tonight will be 30 north-west to 40 southeast. H i g h s Thursday in the 60 s. Afternoon highs yesterday ranged from the 40s to the 60s with a high of 68 at Chanute. T h e
WARMER lows last night were in the 30s. Precipitation occurred during the day Tuesday and over eastern Kansas Tuesday night ending around midnight.
Dodds Cites Character Of Victorian Period
By GLADYS HENRY
Ill health and unsanitary conditions were prevalent, and many patient medicines guaranteed to cure anything from asthma to liver complaints were advertised in the leading newspapers, by handbills, posters, and advertising caravans.
A profound moral earnestness was perhaps the most striking feature of the Victorian personality, Dr. John W. Dodds, visitin- humanities lecturer, said last night.
Along with this went the slow process of political reform, and the Chartists of 1848, who caused great consternation among the people, by their petitions to the Queen, requested only universal male suffrage and vote by secret ballot.
Yet the people held their faith in progress, and in 1833 the Factory Act restricted working hours for women and children. In 1842 women and boys under 10 were forbidden to work underground in the mines.
In the 1840s when economic, cultural, and political customs were changing due to the industrial revolution, nothing was more notable than the Englishman's traditional resistance to profound political and social change." Dr. Dodds said. "unless it was his ability to come to terms when it was inevitable.
The industrial revolution changed the peaceful villages of England to great industrial cities which grew like mushrooms. People were out of work and wandering hungry over the hills, where ten were predatory, and reports of living conditions were a study of horror. Dr. Dodds continued.
"This was an age which had a vast kinetic power which helped it to build a new social order while the old one was dissolving around it. It was a complex and contradictory age on one side the vital and dogmatic side, on the other the doubt and despair as a result of a nation unable to reconcile its intelligence with its belief." Dr. Dodds said.
There were many reasons for this hope, and many more for despair. Few ages have had greater difficulty during civilization to the forces of change.
With the advent of Victoria to the throne, a new period of domesticity came to England, and the place of the women moved from the mines to the home. New standards of private and public conduct were established by the middle classes, and the family became the central theme of life.
Washington — (U.P.)—The House today passed, 285 to 108, a Tidelands bill that would give coastal states clear title to offshore areas out to historical state boundaries.
House Okays Bill For Tidelands Oil
In most states, this is three miles. For Florida and Texas, state boundaries are 10% miles seaward in the Gulf of Mexico.
House passage of the bill came as the Senate opened debate on a slightly different version of the same legislation to make good on one of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's campaign pledges. The House version stipulates that the federal government shall control all of the continental shelf beyond the states' seaward boundaries.
ASC Election Voting Normal
Union Dance Slated Tonight
Informal juke box dancing will be held from 7:30 to 11 p.m. tonight in the Trail room at the Union. All students are invited.
State Legislature Bogged Down
Voting in today's first bi-cameral primary was "about normal for morning" at 11 a.m., according to Bob Worcester, engineering sophomore and All Student Council elections chairman.
Topcake—The Kansas Legislature bogged down at noon today over procedural difficulties on a few remaining measures but members still hoped to end the "stopped-clock" session by nightfall.
State Attorney General Harold R. Fatzer will be asked to inquire into the circumstances surrounding a $3,750 fee Mr. Roberts received from the Cities Service Oil company in 1951.
Meanwhile, the legislature readied another investigation today into the legislative activities of C. Wesley Roberts who resigned last week as Republican national chairman when he was accused of violating the "spirit" of the state lobbying law.
Mr. Roberts negotiated the sale in 1951 of a Norton, Kan., hospital building to the state for $110,000 and received from the Ancient Order of United Workmen, a fraternal insurance society which owned the building, an $11,000 fee.
Sen. Lawrence Gibson, spokesman for the committee, said after a meeting of the group yesterday, that it would ask Mr. Fatzer to look into the fee Mr. Roberts received from Cities Service and "possibly other matters."
Engineers to Hear Harvard Professor
Dr. Phillipe LeCorbiller, professor of general education and applied physics at Harvard university, will speak to a convocation of engineering students at 11 a.m. Thursday in Fraser theater.
The subject of his lecture, which is open to the public, will be "The Industrial Revolution of the Twentieth Century: Automatic Control."
A total of 854 ballots had been cast at that time, Worcester said. Voting was heaviest on the short ballot, listing candidates for three class offices, with 391. Worcester said 336 Pach-NOW-FOR ballots and 127 FACTS ballots had been used.
Both Pachacamac-NOW-FOR and FACTS are conducting their primaries "open." To vote with either party's ballot, the student need not be a party member, Worcester said, explaining that ID cards will be sufficient identification.
Primary candidates are running in two divisions. Some are seeking to be candidates for offices in the Senate, which is based on the candidate's school, while others wish to serve as representatives, which will be composed of delegates from the different residence groups.
Worcester said voting will end at 6 p.m., and that the ballot counters will begin counting the votes shortly after.
The difficulty is caused by the fact that the candidates are being voted on preferentially, with voters marking their first, second, third, etc., choices for each office. Worcester explained that this means the ballot counters must total the number of votes each candidate gets for first, second, third, etc.
McCarthy Plans 2nd Trade Pact
Washington — (U.P.)— Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy said today he will negotiate another non-Communist trade agreement with Greek shipowners unless the administration shows him some good reasons why he shouldn't.
The Wisconsin Republican planned to talk the problem over with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles at lunch. He has been accused of trampling on Mr. Dulles' toes in his one-man venture into foreign policy.
Washington — (U.P) — Gen. James A. Van Fleet said today that after stopping the Communists drive in Korea in May 1951, he recommended to Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway a counter drive to be followed with an amphibious assault on the east coast.
Van Fleet Says 1951 Drive Could Have Ended Fighting
He said he believes such an offensive would have ended the war with a UN victory. But his proposal "was stopped," he said today at a hearing before a Senate armed services subcommittee.
"What stopped it?" Sen. Harry F. Byrd asked.
"As far as I know, Gen. Ridgway," Gen. Van Fleet said.
He also said that ammunition supplies were "below combat needs" throughout his 22 months in Korea and that the picture did not begin to improve until about the time he
He asserted again that he did not have even enough ammunition for the "limited objectives" of his mission, which was to fight a holding operation.
retired as 8th Army commander last January.
The general said he learned of the ammunition shortage shortly after taking command of the 8th Army in April, 1951. His United Nations forces tried to recapture Seoul, but were stopped short. The Communists retaliated with a drive of their own in May and in their turn were stopped by the UN.
In both drives, Gen. Van Fleet said, a lot of ammunition was shot up and he began making daily reports on the situation to UN headquarters in Tokyo. Gen. Ridgway, now Atlantic pact commander in Europe, was then Supreme Far Eastern commander.