Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, March 30, 1953
50th Year, No.116
Stanford Prof Ends Western Civ Lectures
John W. Dodds, director of special programs in the humanities at Stanford university, will speak in Fraser theater at 4 today on "The Humanities in Western Civilization."
Dr. Dodds will give an Humanities lecture, "Ways of Life in Early Victorian England," at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Fraser theater, using data and incidents he discovered during five years of research on how the common man lived during 1841-51.
Tuesday at 4 p.m., Phi Beta Kappa will give a tea for Dr. Dodds in the Museum of Art. Dr. Dodds is a member of the Senate of United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa.
The lecture is the last of a special series in Western Civilization, but it is open to the public.
DR. JOHN W. DODDS
He also will speak to classes in Modern Drama, English Novel, Critical Writing, and Masterpieces of World Literature. He became dean of the Stanford School of Humanities in 1942.
Relays Queen Candidate To Be Selected Tonight
KU's candidate for Kansas relays queen will be chosen at 7:30 today in room 306 of the Union building. Three local businessmen will make the selection from 5 representatives of 21 women's organized houses.
The KU representative will compete with 25 candidates from schools in Kansas and the Big Seven schools participating in the relays. Final judging will be April 8 in Kansas City.
Houses and their representatives are:
Chi Omega, Joan Lodde, fine arts junior; Suzanne Armentrout, fine arts senior; Kathy McKee, college sophomore; Pi Beta Phi, Dana Hudkins, education senior; Marilyn Hawkinson, college junior; Dorothy Ann Smith, college sophomore. Sellards hall, JoAnn Smith, education junior; Jo Ann Boswell, fine arts freshman; Julia Oliver, college sophomore.
Theta Phi Alpha, Maizie Harris,
college sophomore; Eloise Dlabal,
fine arts senior; Rose Marie Lozenski,
education junior. Alpha Chi
Omega, Nancy Dennen, fine arts
senior; Maureen Kelley, fine arts
juniur; Georgia O'Daniel, college
sophomore. Alpha Delta Pi, Donna
Francis, fine arts sophomore; De-
lores Myers, education junior; Janice
Perry, college junior.
North College hall, Jane Loy Henry, Patricia Pierson, Jackelyn Mills, college freshman. Sigma Kappa, Shirley Hunsinger, business junior; Marcia Hininger, college sophomore; Annelliese Schierle, business senior. Foster hall, Mary Ann Curtis, Virginia Lee Oaks, fine arts freshmen; Lou Ann Smee, college junior; Watkins hall, Gayle Granberg, education senior; Shirely
Weather
You can leave your jacket at
your jacket at home, but don't forget your rain-coat. The official prognosticat o r s say the b a l m y weather will continue, with locally severe storms most likely in the southeast this afternoon a n d with a possibility of strong u g t y winds and some
THUNDERSTORMS
hail. It is to continue partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, becoming a little cooler in the east and central parts of the state, and warmer in the west.
Holmes, college junior.
KRUW, Amy De Young, fine art sophomore. Locksley hall, Mary Williamson, college senior. Alpha Omicron Pi, Nancy Danforth, education senior; Dianne Miller, college sophomore; Lucille Defenbaugh, fine arts junior.
Miller hall, Ruby Schaulis and Shirley Boatwright, fine arts freshmen; Janet Dearduff, journalism junior; Mary Hansen, college junior. Delta Delta Delta, Ann Bonecutter, fine arts senior; Mary Gayle Loveless, fine arts junior; Barbara Anderson, college sophomore. Carruth hall, Rita Shiph, college junior; Ruth Mirick, college sophomore.
Kappa Kappa Gamma, Lou Ann Schuetz and Margaret Short, college sophomores; Marilyn Dubach, journalism senior. Alpha Phi, Jean McGinnis, college senior; Annette Young, college sophomore. Delta Gamma, Carolyn Nardyz, college junior; Mary Lou Eklund, fine arts sophomore; Virginia Cox, fine arts senior.
Kappa Alpha Theta, Patsy Wiley,
college sophomore; Joan Guthridge,
college junior; Ann Whittier, college
senior. Corbin hall, Kay Vetterick,
fine arts freshman; Sarah Colling-
wood, Joan Parker, and Alice Wiley,
college freshmen.
New Truce Offer May Settle War
Stassen Attacks McCarthy 'Deal'
Washington — (U.R.)— Harold E. Stassen, mutual security administrator, today accused Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy of "undermining" administration efforts to cut off shipping to iron curtain nations.
Mr. Stassen criticized what he termed an "endorsement" by the Wisconsin Republican of Greek ship owners who agreed to take 242 foreign-flag merchant vessels out of trade with Communist China, North Korea, and Russia's Far East ports.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower's foreign aid chief told Sen. McCarthy's Senate permanent investigating subcommittee that such an "endorsement" is "undermining our enforcement" against shipping to iron curtain ports "instead of helping it."
"It is no concern of yours how we got the agreement," Sen. McCarthy replied when Mr. Stassen demanded to know whether the subcommittee got the agreement with the ship owners by promising to call off a current investigation.
The spirited sparring started immediately as the subcommittee called Mr. Stassen as the first witness in its public hearings on the shipping.
Mr. Stassen argued "it is of concern" and could "have a very major effect."
Bills affecting each of these were in conference committees with members of each house trying to work out compromises.
Earlier, administration officials said an agreement was negotiated with Greece through normal diplomatic channels about a week ago to stop Greek ships from trading with Red China. They said it was made before Sen. McCarthy announced that he had won, promises from Greek owners to cut off their Red trade.
Officials said they did not know whether Sen. McCarthy was aware that the executive branch of the government had been negotiating with Greece for several months on the subject.
Still in committee at noon was Atty. Gen. Harold R. Fatten's anti-
150 Bills Face Legislature In Closing General Session
Reinhold Schmidt, professor of voice, was bass-baritone soloist Sunday in Chicago when the University of Chicago choir and the Chicago Symphony orchestra combine presented Bach's "St. Matthew's Passion" mass.
Schmidt Sings in Chicago
Biggest stumbling blocks to winding up the tumultuous 1953 session in an orderly fashion were controversial bills on veterans affairs, gasoline taxes, high school aid, and occupational disease and workmen's compensation.
Leaders predicted the clocks would have to be stopped at midnight so legislation passed after that hour would show on the official books as having been considered legally before the agreed deadline.
Topeka—(U.P.)—The Kansas Legislature opened its last general session today faced with more than 150 measures to consider.
gambling bill.
Rep. John Murray, Leavenworth Republican who heads the House Judiciary committee, told newsmen the bill was "good as dead."
He said he planned no more meetings of his committee and that there were no plans to bring the measure out for general debate.
Sen. Paul Wunsch, majority floor leader, said the Senate might move through all the bills on its calendar with little trouble by evening. But he said there would probably be a prolonged night and possibly early Tuesday morning session because of bills in conference.
London—(U.P.)—The Chinese Reds broadcast a new offer to end the Korean war today. They proposed that all war prisoners wishing it be returned home immediately. The others would be turned over to a “neutral state.”
It was an apparent surrender by the Reds on the long-stalemated voluntary repatriation issue.
However, the Reds said their offer was "only to put an end to the bloody war in Korea."
The statement was made by Chinese Communist Premier Chou En-Lai. It was broadcast from Peiping by the Red New China news agency
FACTS Reviews Campus Politics
Persons attending Saturday's FACTS Leadership workshop heard a review of campus politics from 1508 to the present with several speakers giving their views on how FACTS has affected politics in the last few years.
Will Adams, graduate student, outlined the history of campus political and government organizations. Adams said FACTS, formed in 1950, came into power in 1951 because of what he termed "public resentment of Pachacamac."
The beginnings of a breakdown of the "forced and unreasonable Greek-Independent split" were caused by FACTS actions, Kay Conrad, college senior, said. She said the introduction of FACTS members to the All Student Council made it for the first time "a truly unified representative body."
Other speakers were Dennis Henderson, college junior, speaking on leadership in campus politics; Mare Hurt, college sophomore, speaking on the role of Greeks in FACTS; and Loy Bilderback, college junior, who discussed the position of an independent in FACTS.
Fraternity to Give Musical Tonight
Sigma Alpha Iota, women's honorary music fraternity, will present a musical featuring American composers at 8 tonight in the Museum of Art.
Vocal solos will be by Mary Lee Haury, fine arts senior; Christine Wiley, education junior, and Gretta Reetz, fine arts sophomore.
"Prelude" a piano solo by John W. Pozdro, instructor in music theory, will be played by Nancy Hindman, fine arts senior.
Truce Proposal Stirs Russian UN Envoy
United Nations, N.Y.—(U,P)—Chinese Communist Premier Chou En-Lai's declared readiness to negotiate the war prisoner problem that deadlocked Korean truce talks took the United Nations by elated surprise today.
First comment on Chou En-Lai's declaration came from Russian delegate Valerian A. Zorin as he entered a secret session of the big five permanent members of the Security Council, who were making a "last chance" effort to agree on a successor to Secretary-General Trygve Lie.
"Interesting," was Zorin's only reaction.
and monitored here.
He pointed out himself that the repatriation issue was the only thing in dispute and claimed that had armistice negotiations not been interrupted for more than five months a solution might have been found long ago.
"Now, inasmuch as the UN has proposed to settle in accordance with article 109 of the Geneva convention the question of exchanging sick and injured prisoners of war during the period of hostilities, we consider that subsequent to the reasonable settlement (of that question) it is entirely a matter of course that a smooth solution to the whole question of prisoners of war should be achieved, provided that both sides are prompted by real sincerity to bring about an armistice in Korea in the spirit of mutual compromise. Chou continued.
Gen. Mark Clark was expected today to propose a meeting at Pammunjom within 38 hours to open negotiations with the Communists for exchanging sick and wounded prisoners of war.
The United Nations Far East commander was understood to be drafting a reply to the Red note accepting UN proposals for exchanging prisoners. However, Gen. Clark's note was expected to make clear the immediate meetings would deal only with sick and wounded.
The Reds also had proposed resumption of the truce talks.
Gen. Clark's headquarters was determined the Communists would not be permitted to use the limited prisoner exchange to reopen the debate on returning all prisoners of war until UN conditions were met,
The UN repeatedly has told the Reds before the truce talks were recessed Oct. 8 that the POW subject would not be taken up again until the Communists dropped their demand for forced repatriation of prisoners.
A Tass dispatch published in Moscow newspapers indicated the Reds would exchange the sick and dead only with the soldiers' consent.
"It should be noted that article 109 of the Geneva convention on prisoners of war oblige belligerents to "repatriate severely ill and badly wounded prisoners regardless of their ranks or numbers after they are moved to a state enabling their transportation," the Tass dispatch said.
"This article also stipulates consent must be received from sick and wounded prisoners of war to repatriation while military hostilities are going on." Tass said.
Lt. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor believes there is no connection between the Communist offer to exchange prisoners of war and the intensified fighting on the Western front.
"I think it is far-fetched to see any association," the 8th Army commander said yesterday.
He said he would 'welcome an end to the Korean war on honorable terms—on honorable and just terms.'
Gen. Taylor said he doubted the Reds gained much from last week's attacks on Old Baldy and Vegas hill. Nevertheless, he predicted the Reds would probably launch more and possibly larger assaults now that spring is here.