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Kay, Football End, Stricken with Polio
Kansas football hopes took a severe blow last night when end Morris Kay was admitted to the Watkins hospital as the fifth student to contract polio this fall.
Kay, education junior from St. John, was a defensive starter and an important coog in the Jayhawk grid machine. Although hospital officials described his case as "only light," he will be sidelined indefinitely and probably for the remainder of the season.
The cancellation of the remainder of the University's football games was being considered today following the outbreak of the dreaded disease on the team. However, following late morning discussions, University officials decided to continue with the season, taking special precautions.
"Football players are naturally more susceptible to polio since fatigue seems to be a factor in the contraction of the disease. However, the ideas of contagious control are much different now than they used to be. We believe that controls are no better than individual attention and observation."
The possibility of cancellation of the remainder of the schedule was initiated by the action of the University of North Carolina when two of their football players were hospitalized with the dreaded disease this fall.
"We believe this particular case is a little different." Dr. Canutelson continued. "While their cases occurred during warm weather, this single case has been contracted after the warm weather has broken and there are indications that the outbreak of the disease tapers off with cooler weather."
MORRIS KAY
Kay saw little action as a sophomore last season. It was not until this fall's Texas Christian game that the St. John player first demonstrated the rugged defensive play that installed him as a mainstay in the Jayhawk line.
Dr. Alexander Mitchell, team physician, said today that paralysis is not likely in Kay's case. Kay reported to the hospital about 3:30 yesterday afternoon complaining of muscle stiffness which is associated with the disease.
Examinations late yesterday and today established the diagnosis. There were no plans to move Kay to the Medical center in Kansas City.
Kay is the fourth case of polio involving University students to be reported since the beginning of school. One other student contracted the disease late in August and is still confined at the University hospital. In addition, two other polio cases involving a faculty member and a wife of a student were treated at the hospital.
Reds Fire on Plane; Superfort Missing
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Soviet fighter planes fired on an unarmed U.S. hospital plane in the air corridor between West Germany and Berlin today and may have shot down an American B-2 Superfortress over northern Japan
82 Die,300 Hurt In Train Crash
Harrow, England —(U.R.)— Two speeding express trains ripped into a crowded commuter local train at Harrow station today in Britain's worst train wreck in 37 years and the second worst in its history.
Rescue workers dragged 82 bodies from the tangled, 30-foot-high heap of debris in which the dead and injured were trapped. They estimated the death toll may exceed 100.
Three hundred persons were injured. Hospital treatment was required by 111 and only 41 of that number could be discharged after emergency dressing of their wounds.
yesterday.
The toll was mounting hourly as volunteer rescue teams, assisted by 50 American medical corpsmen from nearby airbases, pulled apart the crumpled and twisted remains of wrecked passenger coaches.
Shortly after the 41st body had been removed from the wreckage a huge crane lifted the tangled hulk of one coach, exposing at least 20 additional bodies, mangled and crushed beneath the debris.
Two Russian MIG-15 jet fighters buzzed and fired warning machine gun bursts near a twin-engined C-37 making a routine flight along the prescribed air corridor to Berlin to pick up patients.
The C-47 flew into a cloudbank to elude the fighters and landed safely at Tempelhof airdrome in the American zone of Berlin.
In Tokyo, the U.S. Air Force reported its radar scopes showed that an unidentified, non-Allied plane spend from the direction of the Soviet-held Kurile islands toward an American Superfortress minutes before it apparently crashed in the sea off northern Japan yesterday.
The Air Force said the last message from the B-29 was a distress call, followed by a shouted "Let's get the hell out of here!" from one of the eight crewmen.
Two American planes are officially listed as victims of Soviet fighters in previous incidents.
Russia later charged that an American twin-engined plane had violated the Siberian frontier near Vladivostok and said it was fired upon by Soviet fighters.
An unarmed Navy Privateer with a crew of 10 was shot down by Russian fighters on April 8, 1950 over the Baltic sea.
On Nov. 6, 1951, a U.S. Navy Neptune patrol bomber disappeared on a weather reconnaissance flight with 10 men aboard.
STUDENT'S TRAILER DESTROYED-James Langsjoen, college senior, and his wife, were homeless today following a blaze last night which destroyed their trailer home behind 1132 Ohio st. In the picture, firemen are extinguishing flames in a mattress dragged from the smoldering trailer. Langsjoen estimated damage to the trailer and contents $2,500 and $4,000—Kansan staff photo.
at between $3,500 and $4,000.—Kansan staff photo.
Daily hansan
50th Year, No.16
Wednesday, Oct. 8, 1952
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
College Freshman Injured In Bailey Chem Explosion
UN Troops Halt Red Offensive
Seoul, Korea — (U.P.) — Courageous South Korean infantrymen slammed their way back to the top of strategic White Horse mountain last night and held the crest against a storm of Chinese artillery fire for the seventh time in three days.
At 10 p.m. last night, Mr. Franklin reported, the Chinese again were attacking both White Horse and adjacent positions held by French forces. The Reds attacked with troops from several regiments, Mr. Franklin said.
Earlier the tide of battle swung up and down the artillery-scarred slopes of the hill. South Korean troops chased Chinese to the top, only to meet reinforcements that forced them to fall back in fierce close-quarter fighting.
Both sides were reported bringing in thousands of troops, dozens of tanks and regiments of artillery.
Gen. James A. Van Fleet, 8th Army commander, said the Communists 12,000-man "little offensive" had been halted. But fighting raged with new intensity for the west-central front height with neither side able to take full possession.
United Press War Correspondent Warren Franklin reported from the front that the fighting for the hill northwest of Chorwon was the "heaviest for a single hill in at least a week."
Chinese infantrymen, in bloody hand to hand fighting, seized half of White Horse mountain from the South Koreans Wednesday. But neither side was able to hold the crest against the devastating artillery fire from north and south.
He said it "dwarsf the recent fighting for such outposts as Bunker Hill, Old Baldy and Capitol Hill."
A college freshman was in good condition today at Watkins hospital following an explosion in the Bailey chemistry laboratories
MARGARET ALLEN
Business Professor Returns
Jack D. Heysinger, assistant professor of business, has returned to the University after a period of recuperation from injuries suffered in a motorcycle injury on Sept. 14.
Weather
Winter will relax its vise grip on Kansas but the warm-up will be slow and won't bring any rain, according to the weatherman. Temper-
natures in the 70s are forecast for tomorrow, after night time minimums in the lower 30s. Freezing temperatures prevailed last night for prospective night over the northern half and eastern third of Kansas.
**HOT** could be **CO** Lowest was 27, at Goodland, Emporia, Leavenworth, and Topeka. The low in Lawrence was 29.
Margaret Allen, Kansas City, Kan., suffered a severe eye injury and multiple small lacerations on the face, arms, hands, and neck following the explosion which occurred during a laboratory experiment about 11 a.m. yesterday.
The extent of Miss Allen's eye injury would not be known for several days, Dr. R. I. Canuteson, Health service director said today.
The explosion occurred when a wrong combination of chemicals was mixed in an experiment to obtain oxygen, her classmate, Sue Brown, college freshman, said.
Brown, Ogleby Miss Allen is the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Harry R. Allen. The Rev. Mr. Allen is the pastor of the St. Mark's Lutheran church in Kansas City, Kan.
Miss Allen's picture appeared in a number of national advertisements of the Coco Cola company two years ago. She was also picked as butter queen of America recently.
Jet Planes Grounded
Washington — (U.P.) All F-89 Scorpion jet interceptors, an important part of America's defense against enemy air attack, have been grounded, the Air Force said today. The planes will be kept on the ground "as long as necessary" to find the cause of at least three recent crashes.
United Nations Halt Korean Truce Talks
Pamunjom, Korea —(U,P)—The United Nations called a halt to the futile Korean truce meetings today until the Reds accept Allied proposals for breaking the prisoner deadlock or offer a better plan themselves.
The UN emphasized the talks were "not terminated," but the decision to discontinue the meetings indefinitely killed any lingering hope for peace in Korea in the near future.
Student Couple Homeless After Fire
A college senior and his wife are homeless today following a fire that destroyed their trailer home last night. It was the fifth fire in Lawrence since Sunday, when Fire Prevention week began.
Damage was estimated at $3,500. The trailer, belonging to Mr. and Mrs. James Langsjoen, was parked at the rear of 1132 Ohio st.
When fire trucks arrived at 11:30 p.m. the trailer was
already in flames. Neighbors said they smelled smoke earlier in the evening, but no one investigated.
Langsjoen and his wife, employed at the Sunflower Ordnance Works, were gone when the fire was reported by neighbors.
Fire Chief John Miller said the cause of the blaze could not immediately be determined. Langsjoen said he carried no insurance.