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Murphy to Crown Military Ball Queen
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will crown the queen of the 30th annual military ball to be held from 8 to midnight in Hoch auditorium Saturday with a special silver crown adorned with pearls and rhine-
Pianist to Play In Fall Concert
Martha Heck, fine arts senior, will be the piano soloist in the first concert of the year by the KU Symphony orchestra at 8 p.m. Monday in Hoch auditorium.
The orchestra will be directed by
MARTHA HECK
Russell L. Wiley, professor of band and orchestra.
Miss Heck is a pupil of Paul Snyder, associate professor of piano. She will play "Concerto No. 1 in C Major" by Beethoven.
Other selections on the program will include: "Magic Flute overture" by Mozart, "Scherzo," from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Mendelssohn, and "Symphony No. 2 in D Major" by Brahms.
Students will be admitted on presentation of their ID cards. Tickets for the performance may be bought at the box office the night of the concert for 50 cents.
Club Hears Student Sing German Songs
German songs by Dale Moore, fine arts junior, was the highlight of the German club meeting yesterday He was accompanied by James York, fine arts junior.
A medieval German Nativity play by students from German classes and singing of German Christmas carols by a student chorus are scheduled for the Christmas program of the department. Dr. John Newfield, director of the University Theater, is in charge of staging the play.
The German club has been active this semester with a regular membership of 35 and the attendance of many guests and exchange students.
A lecture on German literature will be given at the last meeting of this semester.
stones.
The crown, which was hand made by Jack Barley, fine arts junior, will become a part of the tradition of the military ball. The queen's name will be inscribed on the crown each year.
Lockets will be given to each of the three finalists which will be displayed with the crown at the foot of the bandstand during the dance preceding the crowning of the queen.
Queen finalists Janet Gabrielson college sophomore from Hutchinson; Donna Jean Johnson, fine arts sophomore from Salina, and Maureen Kelley, fine arts junior from Independence, Mo., will enter the auditorium carrying bouquets of roses. They will be escorted by the commanding officers of the ROTC units, Col. Lynn Moore, Air Force; Col. Edward F. Kumpe, Army, and Capt. William Terrell, Navy.
Lie Suggests Firing UN Reds
United Nations, N.Y.-Secretary General Tryge Lie advised the United Nations today that he has accepted a legal recommendation that known or suspected American Communists should be fired from the UN.
Mr Lie circulated to the 60-member countries of the UN a copy of the report made by three outstanding lawyers he recruited last month to advise him on cases of American employees who refused to testify before the Senate Internal Security subcommittee on whether they belonged to the American Communist party or were engaged in subversive activities.
There was no official word whether Mr. Lie had yet fired nine UN employees, slated to be dismissed today for ducking questions before the McCarran committee and hiding behind the protection of the fifth amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Mr. Lie said "it is my earnest hope" that under the new policy "it will be possible for the UN and the host country by mutual efforts to maintain harmonious relationships on matters affecting the staff of the secretariat."
The nine employees due for discharge had spurned a second-chance ultimatum under which Mr. Lie gave them until noon yesterday to agree to answer the committee's questions or be fired.
This was in line with the recommendation of the jurists to Mr. Lie.
Mr Lie will not dismiss Ruth Elizabeth Crawford, publications officer of the UN Children's fund and the only Senate witness who admitted that she had been a member of the Communist party.
Tokyo —(U.P.) A Far East air force weather officer said today a tropical storm reported near Wake Island has moved out of the path of Trans-Pacific airlines and was expected to dissipate.
Storm Leaves Airline's Path
Daily Hansan
50th Year, No. 55
Friday, Dec. 5, 1952
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Ike Ends Korean Tour. Urges More U.S.Aid
Cover-Up Staged For Korean Trip
To keep up the pretense, and keep the news flowing from the Eisenhower headquarters, new cabinet members and other appointees held news conferences daily.
Throughout, reporters cooled their heels and wet their insteps in the snow and drizzle on the wind-swept corner outside the Morningside Heights residence.
Tonko ten Have, professor of political and social science at the University of Amsterdam, left here today after spending four days conferring with members of the departments of psychology, sociology and social work.
New York—(U.R.)—President-elect Eisenhower's "42nd street White House" in the Commodore hotel, where the new administration has taken shape, staged a week-long drama of deception as a cover-up for Gen. Eisenhower's trip to Korea.
Today, they could relax. There weren't any visitors scheduled.
An assortment of bigwigs would go through the Morningside mansion front door at their appointed hour. Newsmen covering headquarters passed the time speculating what these visitors did to kill a half hour in the house with no one of importance to talk with.
Important visitors came and went—both at the 6th-floor hotel headquarters and at the Eisenhower residence at Columbia university. The cabinet was completed, and the announcement of the last two cabinet officials—handed to the press by Secretary Arthur H. Vandenberg two days after Gen. Eisenhower had left—started out:
"President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower announced today . . ."
The announcement was that Martin P. Durkin had been named secretary of labor, Sinclair Weeks secretary of commerce, and Walter Williams under secretary of commerce.
Professor Leaves After Conferences
The last important visitor whom Gen. Eisenhower saw in this country was Mr. Durkin, who visited the Morningside Heights residence the night before the departure for Korea. Gen. Eisenhower left Saturday morning, and it was immediately apparent at headquarters that certain key personnel were missing.
Dr. ten Have also conferred with members of the administration on the possibility of an exchange of students between Holland and Kansas.
En route Home With Eisenhower—(U.P.)—President-elect Eisenhower started home last night after getting the "feel" of the Korean war in a top secret three-day tour which included conferences with top commanders and chow with fighting men in sight of the battle line.
"Much can be done to improve our position," he said. "Much will be done."
He was convinced that American aid to South Korea should be increased, but he was equally convinced that the war should not be allowed to spread.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
He added that he had arrived at "no panaceas, no trick ways of settling any problems."
Two of the men who will be among Mr. Eisenhower's top aides in his new administration accompanied him on his tour.
They were Charles E. Wilson, his designate as defense secretary, and Herbert Brownnell who will be his attorney general. Also with him was Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
the join causes of his Mr. Eisenhower's trip, from his de-
Weather
Clear skies came to Kansas again today, and weathermen issued an optimistic forecast for more of the
CLEARING-
same. Fog and drizzle which had beset the e a s t most of the week cleared out late yesterday. T h e temperature last night ranged from a low of 19 at Goodland to 33 at Wichita. As a reminder of last week's blizzard,
still had 1 inch of snow cover today, and drifts had not melted in several areas.
parture from his New York head-quarters right to the battle line, was conducted behind a curtain of secrecy.
News of it was not released until after he had left Korea and his military air transport service consellation was safely out of the reach of Communist fighters. He arrived in Korea Tuesday night, via San Francisco, Hawaii and Iwo Jima, and left at 9:01 p.m. today (6:01 a.m. CST).
In Korea, he spent hours conferring with Supreme Far Eastern Commander Gen. Mark Clark and Eighth Army Commander Gen. James A. Van Fleet.
Those conferences were inside the compound of Gen. Van Fleet's Seoul headquarters, behind a wall of machine guns and rifles.
Then he went up to the snow-covered forward areas where he talked with jet pilots just back from scouring the sky at 30,000 feet in search of Communist MIG-15s, and with GIs just off the line.
He ate porkchops off a plastic plate with three enlisted men of the U.S. 3rd division within sight of the fighting.
Mr. Eisenhower told his son about the three grandchildren, John's children, and John's wife Barbara.
He saw his son John, a major stationed in Korea as an assistant operations officer with the 3rd division.
He inspected South Korean divisions, which he has said should take over most of the fighting, and praised them highly, particularly their new skill with artillery.
Gls in general welcomed him.
Said Corp. Paul Morrissey of
Trenton, N.J., who is attached to the
3rd ROK division:
"I hope his trip out means the end of the war, but if it doesn't let's go the hell on into Russia and get this thing over once and for all"
In Seoul, Mr Eisenhower saw Korean school children trudging to school, their faces scarf-wrapped against the zero cold. And along the streets, among the shell-wrecked buildings of the dismal capital, he saw women bearing neck-breaking loads on their heads, and old men with their incredible loads of wood or war salvage.
"Now I have a feeling for this situation," Mr. Eisenhower said, when his tour was over.
In a briefing before more than 100 correspondents at Gen. Van Fleet's headquarters he said that he was "far from a defeatist in this business of the future of Korea," and that he believed "passionately" that the forces of Communism could "not conquer or squelch the struggle of the democracies for the right to live in freedom."
Ike Skips Korean Welcome In Secret Tour of Country
Seoul, Koreas—(U.P.)-The nine-
vehicle convoy moved swiftly,
silently through the dark streets of
Seoul.
Seoul.
President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower had kept his campaign promise to come to Korea.
He had arrived in the deepest secrecy—it was the best kept secret of the Korean war.
It was known he was coming. But so jealously was the secret kept that the South Korean government, most United Nations officials, and correspondents were astounded to know he was really here.
Three United Press correspondents, out of more than 100 newsmen in Seoul to cover the visit.
were the only ones to meet and join the Eisenhower convoy. Six other correspondents accompanied the party from New York.
A small party, with a colonel as ranking officer, met the Eisenhower party which included Defense Minister-designate Charles E. Wilson, Attorney General - designate Herbert Brownell and Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
Gen. Eisenhower's plane landed about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at an air field near Scoul.
the group piled at once into Army and Air Force sedams for the drive into Seoul, where Gen. Mark W. Clark, commander in chief, and
Gen. James A. Van Fleet, commanding the 8th Army, awaited at 8th Army headquarters. Leading the convoy was a jeep filled with military police.
Then came Gen. Eisenhower's sedan, followed by a second MP jeep. The jeep's headlights were turned off so they would not shine on Gen. Eisenhower's sedan.
No extraordinary security measures—which would have been obvious to a possible enemy spy—were taken to guard Gen. Eisenhower's party. Its lack of drama was its best protection.
The convoy moved rapidly through war-battered Seoul. The only light came from a nearly-full
moon. No red lights shone on the vehicles. The MP sirens were silent. The convoy commanders were careful to obey all traffic regulations, including the speed limit, so as not to call attention to it.
It was bitter cold. A stiff north wind whipped the banners. Some were torn loose from their moorings.
On the way from the air field, Gen. Eisenhower passed banners, street arches, and posters welcoming him to Seoul.
Few civilians were on the streets of Seoul. It was close to the 9 p.m. curfew. Those who did see the convoy did not give the nine vehicles a second glance.
At scattered points along the route Army sedans were parked with lights off and motors running—presumably filled with guards.
It was 8:53 p.m. when the convoy speed through the gates of Gen. Van Fleet's headquarters and rolled to the building where he has his offices. A platoon of soldiers stood at attention a short distance from the building.
Gen. Van Fleet and Gen. Clark greeted Gen. Eisenhower as he stepped from his sedan.
South Korean plans to welcome the general never got a chance to get going. Even next morning, few Korean officials knew he was in their country.