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Ike's Korean Survey May Decide Gen. Van Fleet's Future in Army
Seoul, Korea—(U.P.)—The military future of Gen. James A. Van Fleet may hinge on Dwight Eisenhower's impressions of the South Korean army.
Van Fleet, 60, is scheduled to retire in January. Eisenhower, as president, however can delay the general's retirement.
He may do it, too.
Van Fleet has gained a reputation as a builder of armies for nations fighting Communism. Thus, Eisenhower who wants to build the ROK army to the point where it can defend most, if not all, of the Korean front, may want to keep Van Fleet in his job as 8th Army commander until the task is completed.
On the other hand, Eisenhower may feel that Van Fleet would be of greater value elsewhere. He may feel that Maj. Gen. Cornelius Ryan, commander of the Korean military advisory group, which is the unit directly in contact with the South Korean army both in training and field operations, can follow where Van Fleet has pointed the way.
If Eisenhower so reasons, he may decide to make Van Fleet a roving trouble-shooter for the U. S. and UN, sending him where his abilities can be used on a basis.
He might even be worked into the framework of
NATO to help build up the European army.
Van Fleet himself is believed determined to finish out the Korean war if his superiors will let him. He has a personal grudge against the communists now because of his pilot son, James, Jr., who is missing in action from a bombing raid.
He and Van Fleet are not strangers to each other. They were classmates at West Point, for one thing.
When Eisenhower arrives he will find Van Fleet and his staff busy putting together two more South Korean divisions and six additional regiments. From watching this program and from his impressions of the ROK army now in the front lines, Eisenhower probably will make his decision.
Husky Van Fleet has a knack for instilling in a new army a fierce pride in itself. He developed this in such a way that the nations involved become stout Van Fleet supporters.
More than one Greek soldier in Korea has said:
"General Van Fleet, he's our chief of staff in loan to the United Nations."
The South Koreans have become just as affectionate. Reports of his possible replacement recently brought deep concern from President Syngman Rhee and other top-ranking ROK officers and officials.
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Pro-French Party Wins Saar In International Tug-of-War
Saarbruecken, the Saar—(U.P.)—Saar voters in a huge turnout reminiscent of the days of Hitler went to the polls yesterday to vote against the coal-rich territory's return to Germany, complete returns showed today.
The election was supposed only to elect a new Saar parliament, but actually was a French-German tug-of-war for the territory sandwiched between the two nations.
The French won, despite a last minute intervention by the Catholic and Evangelic churches which advised the Saarlanders they were not morally obligated to vote.
Pro-German parties were barred from the elections. To show Pro-German sympathies, the Saarlanders had to abstain from voting, invalidate their vote, or vote for the Communist party, which also favoured the return of the Saar to Germany.
Ninety-three per cent of the territory's 621,948 eligible voters went to the polls to give President Johannes Hoffmann's Pro-French Christian peoples party a heavy majority.
The total vote was 579,241. Of this
141,903 or 24.4 per cent of the ballots
were invalid.
Since the abstentions, the 24.4 per cent invalid ballots and the Communist 9.4 per cent vote were all that could be taken as Pro-German, the Pro-French Hoffmann faction won a major victory.
The hefty majority of the Christian peoples party will permit Hoffman to form a new one-party government or make up a strong coalition government.
Cold North Grows Hot Crop
Warner, Alta. — (U.P.)— The cold north produces a hot crop. Nearly a million dollars worth of commercial mustard was harvested in Alberta in 1952.
Blanket of Snow Fails to Halt Reds
Seoul, Korea — (U,R)— A blanket of snow fell across the 155-mile Korean battlefront today but Chinese Communists persisted in their small-scale sneak attacks on Sniper ridge.
Driven by an icy Manchurian wind from the steppes of Central Asia, the snow began falling this afternoon. It was still coming down at 9 p.m. (8 a.m. CST).
United Press correspondent Victor Kendrick reported from the Sniper ridge area of the central front that the snow made a "slippery, muddy mess" of the battlefield. He said an earlier rain had thawed the ground, causing the snow to melt as it fell.
There were two inches of snow in some parts of the Sniper ridge sector and on the steep ridges of the mountainous eastern front. The snow was wet and slushy on the western front.
With the acquisition this week of a clavichord, the School of Fine Arts became one of the few in the country able to offer instruction on
Clavichord Completes Keyboards
all keyboard instruments.
The clavichord, a 12th century forerunner of the piano, fills the chronological first place in the
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The strings are strung from side to side instead of lengthwise as in the piano. Each key extends from the keyboard to its proper pair of strings. At the end is a vertical brass tangent which rises and strikes the strings when the front end of the key is depressed.
The instrument was made in Detroit by John Challis, master craftsman. The money for the instrument came from an anonymous donor through the KU Endowment association.
The clavichord is a shallow box about 5 feet long, 15 inches wide and 5 inches deep. Extending across the left half of the instrument's length is a $4\frac{1}{2}$-octave keyboard. The sharps and flats are tan, while the natural keys are black ebony, the reverse of a piano.
collection. The keyboard collection also includes the harpsichord, piano, several types of organs, and the carillon.
This season Mosser and Wolf photographed 10 football games for the University and exposed approximately 16,000 feet of black and white film and 2,500 feet of color.
"This direct contact between musician and string makes the clavichord a most personal instrument," Dean Thomas Gorton of the School of Fine Arts said.
The instrument was not due here until next summer, but Ronald Barnes, carillonneur who will be charged with the maintenance of the clavichord, was in Detroit this summer and saw the instrument that Mr. Challis was making for himself.
The men travel to the out of town games with the team, regardless of whether the team goes by train or plane. It requires about 1,600 feet of film for each game. This amount varies according to the type of game the team plays.
Mr. Barnes was so impressed with the instrument that he persuaded Challis to sell it to the University.
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Taken Cashing Good Check
St. Louis —(U,R)—Troy L. Gay, 19,
was arrested here for passing 15
worthless checks. He was picked up
as he was cashing a perfectly good
check.
Each play of the game is photographed, from the time the referee starts the play until the official stops the play. These films are used primarily for coaching purposes.
Mosser-Wolf Shoot Official Football Movies
By MAURICE PRATHER
Each football season two Lawrence businessmen, Russ Mosser and Art Wolf, have a job many people would enjoy doing. Their job is shooting the official movies of all the football games played by the University for the department of athletics.
Through the use of the films the coaching staff is able to detect weak points and to make the necessary corrections. They are also able to plot out the methods used by the opponent.
After the game is over, the films
Dr. C. S. Smith, assistant curator of anthropology, said the display contains select specimens recovered in three expeditions to the area, in the summers of 1950, 1951, and 1952, to uncover archaeological data there before it is flooded by the Fort Randall dam, now under construction near Chamberlain, S. D.
A collection of archaeological specimens from excavations of an Indian village site in South Dakota is the subject of the "display of the month" now at the Museum of Natural History.
The display includes pottery, stone and bone tools, a map of the Talking Crow site, a picture of a restored earth lodge near Bismarck, N.D., ornaments, and an incised stone disc used in religious ceremonies.
The expeditions which uncovered the specimens in the display were sponsored jointly by the University and the National Park service.
Indian Relics Now at Dyche
Specimens here were taken from an area known as the "Talking Crow site," in Buffalo county, South Dakota. The Indians who lived there, around 1700 A.D., were the ancestors of the Arikara Indians, who still inhabit the area.
are rushed to Kansas City from where they are flown to Chicago for processing on Sunday morning by the Eastman Kodak company. The films are then returned to the Calvin company in Kansas City by air-mail.
At the Calvin company a duplicate of the original film is printed for showing to the team on Monday and to the Quarterback club later the same evening.
Following the football seasons the best action scenes out of all the games played during the year are cut from the original films and edited into the "Football Highlights" film produced for the athletics department by Mosser-Wolf.
This year the script of the film was written by Don Pierce, publicity man of the athletic department. Editing of the film is being done by Charles Lacey and Herk Harvey, Mosser-Wolf employees. The film will be narrated by Merle Harmon of the KU sports network.
The film will be first shown at the annual football banquet, the date of which has not yet been set.
Art Wolf started shooting the football films in 1938, pretty much on his own, and was joined the following year by Russ Mosser. Both men were undergraduates of the University at the time. From 1938 through 1941 most of their shooting was confined to home games with an occasional Missouri or Nebraska game thrown in.
Since 1945 the two men have photographed every game played by the University.
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