Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
50th Year, No.86
Monday, Feb. 16, 1953
'One World' Aim Cited By Speaker
"One World' must be the aim of Christians in the free world," the Rev. Bengt Hoffman, secretary of the World Council of Churches, Geneva, Switzerland, said this morning in a convocation speech which opened Religious Emphasis week.
House Group Votes to Reduce Income Taxes
Washington — (U.P.)— The House Ways and Means committee overrode President Eisenhower's goslow request and voted 21 to 4 today to cut individual income taxes on July 1.
The cut, if it becomes law, would amount to about 5 per cent for most taxpayers in this calendar year. An additional cut of about 5 per cent would go into effect on Jan. 1, 1954, making the total reduction about 10 per cent.
Legislation was approved by the Ways and Means committee despite Mr. Eisenhower's statement to Congress two weeks ago that "until we can determine the extent to which expenditures can be reduced, it would not be wise to reduce our revenues."
Speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr., said the tax cutting bill would not be called up for action on the floor until a balanced budget is in sight.
Even if the bill passes the house in April or May, as Martin believes is likely, the measure still may never get through the Senate.
The measure approved by the House committee was sponsored by the chairman, Rep. Daniel A. Reed (R-N.Y.). Rep. Reed insisted that his bill be acted on immediately and without any expression of views from treasury or other administration officials.
Strike Halts Work On H-Bomb Plant
Augusta, Ga.—(U, P)—Construction work at the huge Savannah river hydrogen bomb plant was halted today by a strike of union painters.
Atomic Energy commission officials said that all work had been halted by the walkout.
Picket lines were thrown up at all entrances to the massive plant area, just across the state line from Augusta in South Carolina. All other unions respected the lines, refusing to cross them to reach their jobs, the AEC said.
Provincialism is vanishing, and responsibilities as world citizens should not let us ignore the rest of the world, he said. This world brotherhood is not possible without Christianity, he pointed out.
"Our Christian and cultural heritage is being undermined by materialism—both aethetic and realistic, the Rev. Mr. Hoffman said. He explained that doctrinal materialism has replaced the Christian faith in the countries behind the Iron Curtain.
While Western nations are becoming increasingly more materialistic, realistically believing only in what they can touch and measure, they do not deny the existence of God as the Iron Curtain nations do, he pointed out.
"Signs of aethletic materialism in Eastern Germany can be seen in posters of Red political propaganda, in the militarization of the East German youth to a semblance of the Hitler Youth movement, and in the change in the educational system," he said.
Young people in Russian-dominated countries must compromise their beliefs in order to enter a college, he said. They must pass entrance tests based on the teachings of Marx, Engels, Stalin, and other "heroes" if they want to study. High school essays are graded not on grammar and composition but on the Marxist political dogmas expressed in them, the Rev. Mr. Hoffman said.
"America has contributed much knowledge to Europeans in the field of human relations. Europe is hindered somewhat because of its dense population, different social arrangement and attitudes, so that a democracy patterned after America's might not work in Europe," he commented.
Tomorrow Deadline For Blood Donations
Tomorrow is the last day students can register to donate blood to the Red Cross bloodmobile unit Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
Students over 21 can sign appointment cards all day at the information booth. Those under 21 must present parental release slips to make an appointment.
The School of Fine Arts announced today that the faculty reeled at Raymond Stuhl, cellist, originally scheduled for tonight, has been canceled because of illness.
Stuhl Concert Canceled
SWEETHEART FINALISTS—One of three freshman women pictured above will be chosen ISA sweetheart at the annual "Sweetheart Swing" Friday in the Military Science drill hall. Left to right they are Miss Shirley Price, college, of North College hall; Miss Ruby Schaulis, fine arts, of Miller hall, and Miss Marlyn Ryder, college, of Sellards hall. The women were chosen finalists from a field of 10 contestants.
U.S. Fighters Fire On Reds
Tokyo —(U.P.)— U.S. Air Force Thunderjets fired on two Russian-made fighter planes over northern Japan today, damaged one, and sent both invaders fleeing toward Soviet-held territory.
The Air Force presumed the planes were units of the Russian Air Force. They came from Russian territory and fled toward it. But lacking positive proof, Far Eastern Air Forces Commander Gen. O. P. Weyland said he could not identify them officially as Russian.
Two Thunderjets on patrol were guided to the unidentified planes over Japan's northernmost Hokkaido island by radar.
The Japanese government had warned the Russians Jan. 13 that henceforth the U.S. Air Force, in its behalf, would fire on any invading Soviet Air Force planes.
The Thunderjets intercepted and closed in on the two invading planes
Plane Crash Victims Believed Dead
The foreign planes turned and fled northeastward toward the Russian-held Kurile islands. The Thunderjets broke off the engagement to avoid flying into Russian territory.
—Russian-made single-engine propeller-driven fighters in the plus 400-mile-an-hour class.
"Pursuant to standing instructions, our intercepter planes signalled the intruders to land," an Air Force communique said. "The landing signal was ignored by the fighters.
"Our leader then opened fire, scoring hits on the fuselage and wings of one of the intruders."
Mobile, Ala.—(U.P.)The last faint hope for survival of any of the 46 persons on a National Airline DC-6 which crashed into the Gulf of Mexico disappeared today after all the plane's four life rafts were accounted for.
A preliminary investigation indicated the big airliner may have been slammed into the heaving seas about 60 miles south of here Saturday night by "unexpected tornadic conditions."
The plane carried four life rafts, Three 20-man rafts and one for 10 men. The Coast Guard advised National Airlines today that all have now been accounted for. Until then there had been the faintest of chances that someone might have clung alive to one of those rafts.
12 miles off the Alabama coast, was intensified at dawn and extended over 60 square miles of the choppy gulf waters.
Seventeen bodies had been recovered. A search for more bodies and debris, focused at the crash site
--a severe dust storm developed over Western Kansas late Sunday
A University student's father is listed among 46 persons aboard the National Airlines DC-6 that crashed into the Gulf of Mexico Saturday.
Student's Father Among Passengers
Young Martin, who lives at 1537 Tennessee in Lawrence, left Saturday by plane for New Orleans.
--a severe dust storm developed over Western Kansas late Sunday
Among those aboard were a former beauty queen, two members of the Polish diplomatic service, the former wife of a cartoonist, the wife of a New Orleans newspaper official, and a prominent Greenwich, (Conn.) utility company executive and his socialite wife.
Leonard Martin, college freshman, received word that his father, Albert C. Martin, Ottawa, was a passenger.
The Coast Guard revealed a Navy jet plane was believed to have plunged into the gulf a short distance west of the airliner's wreckage. Details of the reported jet crash were not announced immediately.
A Coast Guard spokesman said that many of the bodies recovered were so badly mangled he believed the plane must have plunged "with terrific impact" into the 15-foot waves lashing the Gulf at the time.
The plane was en route from Tampa, Fla., to New Orleans.
ISA Names Finalists For Sweetheart Contest
One of the three will reign as the ISA Sweetheart at the annual "Sweetheart Swing," Friday in the Military Science drill hall.
Three freshmen women have been chosen from 10 contestants to be finalists in the Independent Student association Sweetheart contest.
They are Marlyn Butler, college Shirley Price, college, and Ruby Schaulis, fine arts. Miss Butter represents Sellards hall; Miss Price, North College hall, and Miss Schaulis. Miller hall.
In addition to the finalists, the contestants were Ruth Mirick, college sophomore, Hopkins hall; Karen Gerber, fine arts sophomore, Locksley hall; Lorene Locke, college sophomore, Hopkins hall; Rosanne Drake, fine arts senior, Templin hall; Dorris Toland, fine arts freshman, Watkins hall; Carol Redd, college freshman, Foster hall, and Margot Baker, college freshman, Corbin hall.
The contestants were judged on appearance, personality, and poise by three faculty members, Charles Warriner, instructor of sociology, Joseph S. Begando, assistant professor of business, and E. Jackson Baur, associate professor of sociology.
The dance will be semi-formal, from nine until twelve. Gene Hall and his orchestra will furnish music for dancing.
ISA members will be admitted to the dance on presentation of membership cards. Non-members may purchase tickets at the door for 50 cents.
Adali to Meet With Eisenhower
Washington — (U.P) — Adlai Stevenson today accepted President Eisenhower's invitation to join him tomorrow at a lunch for a group of Republican and Democratic House members.
White House press secretary James C. Hagerty said that Mr. Stevenson—defeated by Mr. Eisenhower for the Presidency—will confer with the President in his office at 11:30 p.m. (CST) tomorrow.
Then Mr. Stevenson will join the Chief Executive at another in a series of congressional lunches which Mr. Eisenhower has been holding for two weeks.
Asked why Mr. Eisenhower had invited his 1952 opponent to the White House, Mr. Hagerty said, "he just wanted to have a little chat with him."
E. Stanley Jones.
"Fear ties me up; faith releases me; therefore I choose faith."
Thought for the Day
House Trims Money Bill
Washington—(U.F.)—The House Appropriations committee kicked off the Eisenhower administration's economy drive today by slashing $1,480,046,670 from a money bill originally totalling $2,313,719,590.
The 60 per cent cut in a request prepared by the Truman administration before the Republicans took over hit the defense department hardest.
The bulk of the savings resulted from complete elimination by the committee of $1,200,000,000 sought by the defense department to meet higher pay, subsistence, and other increased costs authorized, in large part, by the last—Democratic—congress.
The committee directed the defense department to get such money as it needs to meet the new demands by dipping into funds already appropriated but not yet earmarked for some other purpose.
The committee approved a total of $905,672,920 in new money for various government departments and agencies. The money can be spent or obligated during the current fiscal year which ends July 1.
Chairman John Taber (R.-N.Y.) of the appropriations committee told a reporter that the defense department already has all the money it needs to carry it through the remainder of this fiscal year.
Weather
COLD OR FAIR
afternoon and extended to the central areas before winds subsided Sunday night. The weather bureau said it was the most severe dust storm since the spring of 1950. As the wind switched from the west to the north a cold wave rode into
the state. Temperatures were in the 60s in the west Sunday but dropped to the 20s today. A few snow flurries were reported in the northeast portion. Temperatures won't rise much today, but the winds will slacken with colder weather tonight and warmer Tuesday.