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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Sept. 26, 1952
'Kennan a Liar Pravda Charges
Moscow—(U.P.)—Pravda, official newspaper of the Russian Communist party, attacked U.S. Ambassador George F. Kennan today as "a slanderer masking as a diplomat."
Veteran observers here could not recall that any diplomat accredited to the Kremlin had ever been attacked with such violence. Western diplomats speculated on whether the Russians were preparing to designate Mr. Kennan as "persona non grata," a diplomatic step that would almost certainly result in his recall by Washington.
Pravda accused Mr. Kennan of
Stockton Named To Labor Panel
Frank T. Stockton, dean of University Extension, has been named to a panel of five men from which arbitrators will be selected for labor disputes in the plate glass plants in Shreveport, La., and Henryetta, Okla.
The panel was chosen by the Window Glass Cutters League of America and the two operating companies, the Pittsburgh Plate Glass company and the Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass company.
Dean Stockton has had experience as an arbitrator in disputes involving unions and the management of several major industries in Kansas. During World War II he served as a public member on the Regional War Labor board. Currently he is an alternate public member of the Regional Wage Stabilization board for Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri.
Official Bulletin
TODAY
Kappa Phi. 7 p.m.. Danforth chapel. Open to all women desiring to pledge.
International club social gathering, 7:30 p.m.,222 Strong. Everyone invited.
SUNDAY
Lutheran Student association Gay Nineties review, 8 p.m., Trinity Lutheran church.
Danforth chapel services, 8:30 a.m. sponsored by Gamma Delta. Everyone welcome.
Bible discussion. 9:45 a.m., Myers hall, Topic, "Life of Christ."
Episcopal Canterbury club meeting. 9 a.m., at church.
Gamma Delta cost supper, 5:30 p.m., City building, 8th and Vermont.
Lutheran Student association, 5:30 p.m., Trinity Lutheran church. Talk: "What's Missing?"
FUTURE
Episcopal Canterbury club Holy Communion, 7 a.m., Monday, Danforth chapel.
Math, colloquium, 5 p.m., Monday,
203 Strong.
ISA meeting, 7:30 p.m., Monday AWS lounge. Everyone interested invited.
Student Council meeting, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, 103 Green. Important all members be present.
Jay Jane rush tea, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Myers auditorium.
"vicious hostility" to the Soviet Union. It accused him of defaming Russia and lying about it.
The attack was caused by a statement Mr. Kennan made in Berlin Sept. 19 that Western diplomats in Moscow are now kept in "icy cold" isolation.
A United Press London dispatch said Mr. Truman was shown the report of the Pravda attack at the American embassy and said "no comment."
George Zarubin, the new Soviet ambassador to the United States presented his credentials to President Truman in Washington yesterday. He told Mr. Truman that the Russian people have a feeling of friendship with the American people and that Russia is striving for peace."
Later, talking to correspondents, he denied there was any "Hate America" campaign in Moscow.
The President told Zarubin that the American people "have only the friendliest of feelings" for the Russian people and that the United States seeks a peaceful, prosperous world.
Springfield, III.—(U.P.)—The unhappy thought is spreading around Stevenson headquarters that the Democrats have made about all the political hay they dare loft out of Sen. Richard M. Nixon's secret expense account. The fund business seems to be backfiring.
Newspapers out this way—the unlucky ones—have been belting Stevenson on his own fund operations. They demand that he match Nixon's candor. Who put up how much money and who got it?
This Leland hotel pinball machine is headquarters cracker barrel or town pump. News writers and the less aloof among the political crew fill it with nickels in their off-hand belongings to spending on mechanism which pays off in free games only. It is not a gambling device.
Those questions remained unanswered when Stevenson junked news conference suggestions yesterday and the day before on his return from a swing through the east. Reporters, some 30 of them, petitioned for a conference, reminded the governor that he had promised to meet with them weekly for the customary informality of question and answer. Stevenson turned them down though it has been nearly a fortnight now since he saw the press.
Or, as it was put to this reporter in a huddle around the Leland lobby pinball machine—"Nixon's slush fund probably is no longer exploitable."
Taft Claims Democrats In Sympathy With Commies
Stevenson says he does not intend
Racine, Wis.—(U.P.)—Sen. Robert A. Taft shared the platform with Sen. Joseph McCarthy and blasted the Democratic administration for sympathy toward Communism since the early days of the New Deal. ___
The people who went to Terhan the people who went to Yalta accepted the theory that Communism was a peace-loving form of democracy, he said.
The Ohio Republican blamed the State department for the wholly unnecessary war in Korea, and said the department abandoned the Chinese Nationalists because the department preferred the Chinese Communists—they were a kind of Chinese New Deal.
Senator Taft made three speeches in support of Dwight D. Eisenhower in Wisconsin Thursday. He goes next to Chicago where he was scheduled to make a major address today.
He criticized American foreign policy brought about by wavering and uncertainty and unwillingness to take a firm stand against Communism.
Taft called McCarthy "my good friend and a great senator" and urged McCarthy's reelection in Wisconsin as part of the battle against the false liberalism and sympathy towards Communism in the Democratic administration.
Taft said Eisenhower, who defeated Taft for the GOP presidential nomination, supported his theory that the best insurance for peace would
Stevenson Political Fund Of Over $100,000 Reported
He was quoted yesterday by two Scripps-Howard reporters as saying that he thought "part of the money went to Governor Stevenson and part of it to the Democratic State Central committee."
Fund Disclosure Backfires on Demos
William J. McKinney, former state purchasing agent, said yesterday that "at least $100,000" was collected from firms who supplied services or goods to the state in 1949-50.
Springfield, Ill.—(U.P.)—A former member of Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson's administration, who had revealed that a political fund was collected from state suppliers, today acknowledged he didn't know how much money rolled into the Democratic coffers.
"was simply a Democratic party fund used for the campaign of 1950."
Mr. McKinney said he did not take part in collecting or soliciting the funds but furnished a list of suppliers to James W. Mulroy, Governor Stevenson's late executive secretary.
Mr. McKinney added he could not "conceive" of Governor Stevenson misusing funds and said the governor is "very economical."
Governor Stevenson has not acknowledged that state suppliers contributed money to a special fund and neither has any of his staff.
Mr. McKinney said the $100,000 figure was "strictly a guess." He admitted he could have missed the mark widely.
Mr. McKinney said that to the best of his knowledge the money
be a foreign policy that firmly stated American intentions.
He said Eisenhower had made it clear to him that he was for cutting government spending and stopping the advance of federal power, which he said had grown so big the people are afraid of it.
His recent conference with Eisenhower, he said, was "not because I had any doubts but because I thought I would have more influence with my friends if I could give them direct assurance of Eisenhower's belief in Republican principles."
to answer questions such as those. If the fund issue continues hot, this side of the presidential campaign may proceed to the finish minus news conferences.
Reporters who have been covering Stevenson for some weeks explained it this way: the governor doesn't like news conferences under any circumstances. But least of all does he relish the rough handling he gets from the relatively few unfriendly newsmen in his party. The questioning this week would have been rugged.
Some of the Chicago reporters give Stevenson a hard time when they can get at him, so the governor has been making those opportunities as infrequent as possible. Old timers are remided of the Hoover administration. Under bad news pressure of world wide calamity and reverses at home, Mr. Hoover gradually abandoned the news conference device. Calvin Coolidge before him and FDR afterward made the White House news conference an instrument of tremendous news and administration propaganda—and enjoyed using it.
President Truman enjoys and profits by news conferences, too, despite occasional wild swings to his own chin. On the record of the Stevenson campaign so far, there seems to be a question whether the governor could stomach even the genteel jousting of a White House news conference—and whether that noble and unique institution of information and government propaganda would long survive his election to the presidency.
In an electronic age, Stevenson is a television man and the newspapers might as well accept that as a fact. Neither microphone nor camera can ask an embarrassing question-nor repeat a question which has been ignored.
Faculty Open House Set for 5 p.m. Sunday
An open house will be held from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Sunday at the Faculty club for faculty members and guests.
Hosts will be Chancellor and Mrs. Franklin D. Murphy and members of the board of government.
Miss Elin Jorgenson, associate professor of music education, is in charge of arrangements.
AWS Senate, House To Meet
"Somehow you have to get through to the people," Stewenson told his Baltimore audience this week. "It is not easy. That is why things like television and all of these media of communication that are so appallingly expensive are likewise necessary."
A joint meeting of the senate and house of representatives of Associated Women Students will be held at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the AWS lounge. Coffee will be served after the meeting.
With that observation, the governor warned his listeners against columnists and editorial writers. He thinks the pundits are giving him the worst of it. He doesn't say much about the reporters, but it would seem that the governor should not complain.
Stevenson is in comparatively friendly hands, which is more than can be said for his opponent, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Polls among the news writers in both parties have shown Stevenson to be far away the favorite of the men and women who are reporting the presidential candidates for newspaper and radio. The combined box score showed 43 of the campaign journalists personally preferred Stevenson to 16 for Eisenhower. Twelve were undecided and two failed to vote in the polls.
In Stevenson's own party the newsmen favored the governor more than three to one over Ike. With such a friendly majority assured in any headquarters news conference, you would think a nimble candidate would welcome a game of question and answer with the press.
There was little ground action.
Rain prevented carrier operations until mid-day today when the U.S. Carrier Sicily in the Yellow sea sent 35 planes against Northwest Korea.
The Battleship Iowa slammed 16-
inch installations at Saginaw on King's
Road.
Most of the supplies gathered at Hulliak were ordinance, bombs; explosives and ammunition intended for the front. Superfort crews reported seeing one tremendous orange-colored explosion.
DeLuxe Cafe
UN Planes Rake Depots
Seoul, Korea —(U.P)-United Nations warplanes pounded Communist winter supply depots and front line positions today as the weather cleared all over Korea.
Grounded for 24 hours by heavy rains that also slowed the fighting on the 155-mile battlefront, 5th Air Force planes swarmed across the lines today to attack Communist infantry along the entire battlefront.
Land-based marine planes attacked a huge Red Army center on the Haeji peninsula of West Korea, destroying 31 buildings. Navy planes raked a wide area of northwest Korea.
Sabre jets flew up to the Yalu river in an unsuccessful search for MIG-15's.
B-29's early today raided an enemy rail and supply center northwest of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. Nine bombers dropped high explosives among 100 supply buildings at Hullaik, on the main rail line between Pyongang and Sinuju on the Manchurian border.
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