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STUDENTS VOTE IN TODAY'S ELECTION—Camilla Klein, regional director for the Young Democrats of America and active in campus politics, casts her vote. John Kendrick, a graduate physiology student, is shown on the right, leaving the voting booth after marking his ballot. Mrs. Mamie Patton, a precinct worker, is shown on the extreme left. Miss Klein, a law student, is leaving tonight for Springfield, Ill., where she, along with other regional directors, will await news of final election figures in Gov. Adlai Stevenson's headquarters at the Lakebad hotel in Springfield—Daily Kansan photo by Don Sarten.
A tea in the Union cafeteria provided the setting as six secret judges determined the finalists on the basis of beauty, charm, and personality.
Competition for homecoming queen was narrowed from 30 to 10 University women as candidates and judges met last night for the first time.
Leland hotel in Springfield -Daily Kansan photo by Don Sarten.
Queen Field Cut To 10 Candidates
Finalists are:
Finishes
Stephanie Drake, college sophomore
Pi Beta Phi; Norma Eshelman,
college freshman, Corbin hall; Jane
Henry, college freshman, North College
hall; Mary Louise Lavy, fine arts
freshman, Holderd hall; Beth
Lowell, college sophomore, Chi
Omega.
Janet Lewis, fine arts freshman,
Corbin hall; Janice Skaer, college
sophomore, Delta Gamma; Donna
Tarwater, fine arts freshman, North
College hall; Denni Diane Wade,
college senior, Alpha Delta Pi,
and Patsy Wiley, college sophomore,
Kappa Alpha Theta.
The ten finalists will have dinner at the faculty club with the judges at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. At the dinner the queen competition will be narrowed down to three women who will be introduced at the Jayhawk Follies at 8:45 p.m. Friday in
Hoch auditorium.
Identity of the queen will be kept secret until halftime Saturday at the Kansas-Nebraska football game. She will be introduced with the traditional fanfare, including a ride in a convertible around the track of the stadium, music by the University band, honor guards from the Army, Navy, and Air Force ROTC units, a kiss from Gov. Edward F. Arn, and congratulations from Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
Granada to Sponsor Free Election Party
The Granada theater will hold a free election party tonight with the showing of election returns on the television screen starting at 11 p.m.
Theater manager J. D. King said that the theater will be open as long as the network continues to telecast. He said free coffee will be served.
Music Groups to Give Opera of Tangled Love
By KEN COY
The age-old story of two human beings entangled in the web of their own reckless impulses will be told by members of Mu Phi Epsilon, Sigma Alpha Iota, and Phi Mu Alpha, honorary music fraenkernes, in Strong auditorium 8 p.m. Wednesday.
The opera, "Dido and Aeneas," was written sometime during 1689 for presentation at a young ladies boarding school near Chelsea. The words were written by Nahum Tate, celebrated as author of a revised version of Shakespeare's "King Lear" and the music by Henry Purcell, famous English composer.
The story begins when Aeneas flees from the ruins of Troy. He sets sail for the coast of Italy, where he expects to found a new Troy.
expect to hear that he is driven off his course by a storm and is wrecked on the coast of Carthage, a city state of Northern Africa. Carthage is ruled by Dido, a queen so beautiful her fame has spread throughout the entire world.
When happiness seems complete Dido and Aeneas fate intervenes, in the form of a sorceress and her attendant hags. They plot to destroy the happiness of Dido.
As the saying goes, "it was love at first sight." Dido fears their love can never be for her sacred duty comes first. After much convincing on the part of her court as to the advisability of a marriage with Aeneas she consents.
In order to do this the sorceress poses as Mercury, the Greek god, and commands Aeneas to leave Carthage. When Aeneas hears his divine command he hastens to his ship and makes plans to leave.
Distracted by the news that Aeneas is leaving, Dido comes to the harbor where she confronts him. After he tells her the truth about his leaving she is heartbroken.
Harriet King, fine arts junior,
will be Dido; Dale Moore, fine arts
juniur, will be Aeneas; Mary Lee
Haury, fine arts senior, will be Bellina,
and Linda Stormont, fine arts
juniur, will be the sorceress.
Dido then sings the celebrated lament "When I Am Laid in Earth," and stabs herself. As she dies _she sings "Remember Me! But, Oh, Forget My Fate."
Tickets may be bought for 50 cents from any members of Mu Phi Epsilon, Phi Mu Alpha, or Sigma Alpha Iota. Students enrolled in the recital course will get extra punches on their recital cards for attendance.
Daily hansan
50th Year, No. 35
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, Nov. 4. 1952
Voting Record Seen In Today's Election
Washington — (U.P.) — Americans were turning out in record early-hour numbers today to decide whether Dwight D. Eisenhower or Adlai E. Stevenson shall be 34th President of the United States.
As polling places went into action in the various time zones across the country, unusually long lines of voters—brought out by generally clear weather and the roughest campaign of modern times
That would be far greater than the previous record-49,901,835—in the Franklin Roosevelt-Wendell Willkie contest of 1940.
bolstered pre-election figure estimates of 55 million.
Leading pollsters were refusing to get out on a limb with positive predictions, though most of them gave a slight edge to Gen. Eisenhower, the Republican. But Gov. Stevenson, the Democrat, was reported to have been gaining steadily in the homestretch.
Locally, members of the Reporting I and Reporting II classes will be covering the election polls in Lawrence. They will be at the polls from closing time until the last vote is counted.
Kansanto Print Election Issue
The Daily Kansan will publish an election extra at 6 a.m. tomorrow with the latest election results.
The local results will be brought to the newsroom where rewrite men from the Reporting II class will tabulate and combine them into one report.
National coverage will come from the United Press wire in the newsroom and by radio reports.
Members of the Editing II class will be at the copy desk all night editing and checking election copy as it comes from the rewrite men. Photographers will be visiting various polling places and where students are gathered listening to results.
Unless there is a definite change in trend or a radical reversal of the morning election news, no other edition of the Kansan will be published Wednesday.
Students and faculty are welcome to call KU 251, 252, or 253 during the night for latest election results.
First of the major campaign figures to cast their ballots were the Republican candidate and Mrs. Eisenhower. They voted early, in New York, and then went to their home on the Columbia university campus to await the result.
President Truman, who has just 12 weeks more in the White House, cast his ballot at Independence, Mo., and then boarded his campaign train for Washington.
Gov. Stevenson's poll place was in the hamlet of Half Day, Ill., an easy auto drive from the governor's mansion in Springfield, Ill.
As usual, there was a scattering of early returns from villages here and there which pride themselves with being among the first to report. They betokened nothing that could be called a trend.
Millsfield, N. H., for example, gave Mr. Eisenhower eight votes, Mr. Stevenson, none. But the isolated community of Catalogooche, N.C., gave all seven of its votes to Stevenson.
Oklahoma City's report was typical-voting "very, very heavy . . . nothing like this before."
More than 550,926 ballots had been cast in Chicago before voting day was one-quarter over, a record pace if it keeps up throughout the day.
Stevenson:
As polling reports followed the sun westward, the story everywhere was the same—long lines of voters suggesting a record turnout by poll closing.
Election officials at Cleveland reported "unusually heavy" voting and predicted an all time record for the city of 680,000 by nightfall.
Mr. Eisenhower would be the
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower held a 3 to 1 lead over Gov. Adlai Stevenson in the unofficial returns from all 12 voting precincts in Lawrence at 11:30 a.m. today.
Ike Leads 3-1 In Lawrence Vote
at 1:00am the morning returns gave the Republican presidential nominee 1.447 votes to 428 for Stevenson.
Gov. Edward F. Arn also was leading Charles Rooney, Democratic candidate, 1,245 to 617 in the gubernatorial race.
GOP incumbent Errett P. Scriven held a 1,245 to 617 edge over Democrat Claude L. Rice for 2nd district congressman.
The Douglas county rural vote also was favoring the Republican candidates, although early returns were slow in coming in.
14th Republican and Mr. Stevenson the fifth Democrat to occupy the White House since Civil war days.
Gen. Eisenhower would be the fourth oldest President. He is 62. Gov. Stevenson would be the ninth youngest. He is 52.
These two men—who had said they didn't want to be President—made the angriest campaign in the memories of most voters.
End to Rebellion Seen by Warden
Columbus, O. — (U.P.) — Warden Ralph W. Alvis said there were signs today that 1,600 cold and hungry convicts at Ohio penitentiary may be ready to end their rebellion and surrender.
After four days of rioting in which one convict was shot to death and four were injured, Warden Alvis said he had received about 35 "kites," or notes, from prisoners in troubled cell blocks G, H, I, and J. He said the surrender offers in some cases were signed by men representing up to 68 prisoners.
Warden Alvis said all had been quiet inside the 23-acre penitentiary since 6 p.m. yesterday when state highway patrolmen fired two warning shots at convicts who moved beyond an arbitrary "no trespassing" zone inside one cell block.
Prison officials had no comment on whether they would carry out a plan to evacuate 600 or 800 prisoners, possibly to Camp Pelevin in northern Iraq. Perry was asked a prisoner of war camp during World War II and more recently as a training camp for national guardsmen.
warden Alvis said the main problem involved in moving prisoners to Camp Perry was providing food and beds for them and erecting a fence around the camp.
Weather
Perfect election day weather came to Kansas. Sunny skies and warming temperatures were the rule. The mercury slipped under freezing last night at only three points—28 at Goodland, 30 at Leavenworth and Chanute.
No rain was predicted today or tomorrow, or in fact at any time soon, forecaster Tom Arnold said. Temperatures will continue mild, with highs around 70 tomorrow following above-freezing marks tonight.
OPERA TO BE PRESENTED TOMORROW—The following students have the principal roles in a concert version of Purcell's opera, "Dido and Aeneas," to be given Wednesday night in Strong auditorium. They are (left to right): Linda Stormont, contralto; the sorceress; Dale Moore, baritone; Aeneas; Harriet King, mezzo-soprano; Dido; Mary Lee Haury, soprano, Belinda; and William Oldham, the director of the production. The opera, which will be given with string quartet and harpsichord accompaniment, is 100 per cent with Alvin Ludwig from the three music salariets and fraternity.
cent student produced, with talent drawn from the three music sororities an