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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1951
—Photo by E. Zahm.
F. A.C.T.S. candidate for A.S.C. president, James Logan (right), is congratulated on his victory in Wednesday's school elections by Roy Zimmerman, College sophomore, Betty L. Brown, College senior, and Suzanne Plummer, fine arts junior
UN Troops Battering At Red Defense Line
Tokyo (U.P.)—United Nations forces battled their way into the main Chinese defense line north of the 38th parallel in western Korea today with flame-throwers, bayonets, and jet planes.
The Reds fought to the death north of Yongpyong, 32 miles northeast of Seoul and a mile above the parallel, to bar the main highways into the heart of Communist North Korea.
At the same time, the Chinese command sent 1,000 or more troops south surging across the parallel northwest of Seoul to threaten the western flank of the United Nations advance. The far western sector is the only one in which the eighth army has not crossed the parallel.
On the east coast, South Korean patrols struck north virtually unopposed to the seaport town of Kang-song. 26 miles north of the parallel.
U. S. Superfortresses and jet fighters destroyed or damaged a record 22 Communist planes in beating off the greatest enemy air challenge yet to American air superiority over Korea.
Some 210 to 220 aircraft tangled in the cloud-flecked skies over northwest Korea in two major battles, one of them the greatest jet combat in history.
MIG-15 jets against 114 to 124 U.S. bombers and jet fighters in the two battles. They ended with five MIGS shot down, two probably destroyed, and 15 damaged.
Two battle - damaged B-29's landed at Allied-held Korean airfields, but no other damage was reported to the U.S. aircraft.
The Reds threw 95 Russian-built
The Communist challenge tended to confirm recent intelligence reports that the Reds were massing aircraft in Manchuria for an all-out air offensive.
In the day's first battle, 80 enemy jets—the biggest single Communist air armada yet encountered over Korea—ripped into 30 to 40 B-29 Superfortresses and 72 escorting sabrejets and Thunderjets over Sinuiju, just south of the Manchurian border.
Red Troops In Manchuria
Washington (U.P.)—Russia has at least three and possibly five divisions totalling up to 75,000 well-trained troops in the Port Arthur-Darien area in Manchuria about 200-odd miles from the Korean border. it was learned today.
These Red forces are in addition to "large numbers" of Soviet ship-submarine personnel assigned to Port Arthur, second only in size to the Soviet's Far Eastern naval headquarters at Vladivostok.
Approximately 100 Red submarines are believed to be based at Port Arthur although none has been reported near Korea.
The most recent intelligence reports came to light after the army estimated that 18 Chinese Red divisions had moved into Korea from communist China. April 2013 now have an estimated 695,000 troops in North Korea.
The presence of Soviet troops in the Port Arthur-Darien area, experiments said, flatly contradicts a statement by Tass, the official Soviet news agency, that "There are no Soviet troops in Manchuria."
U. S. intelligence reports, diplomatic and military strategies are puzzled over why the Russians just last weekend denied that any Soviet troops were in Manchuria. The denial followed statements by house speaker Sam Rayburn that "We are in terrible danger because the Russians are concentrating here and there and everywhere."
Measles Having A Spring Fling
Literature Today Is Decaying Speaker Says
Topeka (U.P.)—Measles are having a spring fling in Kansas, the state board of health disclosed today.
Dr. C. H. Kinnaman, state epidemiologist, reported there were 585 new cases of the children's disease last week, a jump of 204 from the previous week. Wichita was hardest hit with 217 onsets.
A University graduate has been cited for meritorious service while serving with a marine infantry batalion in Korea.
He is Lt. Chester L. Klein, who was graduated from the School of Medicine in 1947.
Marines Honor KU Graduate
The citation reads that Lieutenant Klein "consistently displayed outstanding professional skill, and courage and a sound knowledge of the medical profession in the performance of his duties. He established, maintained, and operated the battalion aid station close to the front line units and, although exposed to enemy fire on many occasions, he administered aid and comfort to and aided in the rapid evacuation of more than 900 casualties.
Violence and suffering prevail in 20th century literature and this is a symptom of literary decay, Robert Morss Lovett told an audience in Fraser theater Wednesday.
"His actions were an inspiration to all members of the battalion and directly contributed to the saving of many lives that might otherwise have been lost."
Professor emeritus of English at the University of Chicago and former editor of the New Republic magazine, Professor Lovett is coauthor with William Vaughn Moody of the college text, "History of English Literature." He is now teaching a course in modern literature at the University of Kansas City.
"Decay in literature is a state in which there is no steady forward movement," said Professor Lovett. There are many signs of such decay today, he added.
"The breaking down of established forms of literature is the greatest symptom. The novel form has been shattered by James Joyce, author of 'Ulysses'. The poetry form so well-established in past centuries has almost disappeared, and there has been a breakdown of the legitimate stage in drama," the professor explained.
The material of today's literature is itself of a destructive nature, said the white-haired, 81-year-old professor. Much of the writing of approved and distinguished authors turns on war, crime, and sex alone. "Mental, moral, physical, and verbal violence" are the keynotes
"Thomas Hardy in his novels set aside the element of purpose in the universe, a sign of decay in the very source of literature," he said.
"Men used to believe that the universe had a reason which could be understood by the human consciousness, but that belief has crumbled." he commented. "The agnostism of present writers means the loss of values of enormous importance in literature."
Tickets On Sale Today
Tickets go on sale today to out-of-state students and faculty members for the first annual W.T.H.A.Y. D.O.H.I.K. dinner Thursday, April 19. Meaning of the title will be announced at the dinner, which will be held in the Kansas room of the Union.
"Anything is likely to happen when Confederate flags start waving in the face of Northerners singing 'Yankee Doodle,' she said. "Out-of-staters should practice up on the accents they have dropped for the Kansas drawl and come prepared to meet the folks from back home."
The out-of-state committee of student Statewide activities is sponsoring the dinner. Tickets will be sold today, Friday, and Monday, April 16 in Strong hall and the Union.
Rural Electrification Administration projects in Nebraska serve some 90,000 persons with electrical power.
Washington (U.P.)—Here is the way the revised universal military training proposal approved by the house armed services committee would work:
Truman Might Pick UMT Commission
Each person who comes to the dinner should bring an appropriate symbol or come dressed as a native his/ her or his/ her; his/ her, committee chairman, said.
President Truman would appoint a national security training commission of three civilians and two military men. Within six months after their confirmation, commission members would submit to congress "legislative recommendations" for a U.M.T. program.
House and Senate armed services committees, within 45 days, would report to house and senate their own recommendations on the commission's plans, with or without amendment.
Bills so reported would be privileged — that is, they could be called up by any member of either house. They also could be amended just as any other legislation.
Only when congress enacted resulting U.M.T. plans into law could it become effective. This would take the normal majority vote of each house and the president's signature.
Swiss Aid Open To KU Student
The Graduate School and the German department have announced the continuation of exchange scholarships between the University of Kansas and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland.
Under the agreement with the Swiss institution, a graduate student of the University will be able to study in Zurich during the academic year 1951 and 1952, while a Swiss graduate student will attend K.U.
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology has fully staffed and equipped departments of architecture and engineering, chemistry, physics, mathematics, geology, botany, biology, physical education, and forestry.
Applications for the exchange scholarship should be turned in to Dr. J. A. Burzle, chairman of the German department, 304 Fraser hall, on or before Sunday, April 15.
The candidate will be selected on or before Tuesday, May 15 by the rector of the Swiss Institute on the basis of both personal and academic qualifications.
Between 80 and 100 social studies teachers are expected to attend the annual spring meeting Saturday of the Kansas Council for the Social Studies. Business will include election of officers.
Social Study Group To Meet Saturday
Speakers will include Ethan Allen, professor of political science; Prof. Roy Durham of Kansas State Teachers college in Emporia; and Leland J. Pritchard, professor of business, Dean Frank T. Stockton of University Extension will give the introductory speech.
Liza Peussa of Finland and Hirohiko Otsuka of Japan, graduate students, will discuss social studies in their homelands.
MacArthur Says He Complied With Directives
Tokyo (U.P.)-Gen. Douglas MacArthur today indirectly contested the charges that led to his dismissal and contended that he had complied with all Washington's directives on the Korean war.
Maj. Gen. Courtney Whitney, the general's closest adviser, issued a formal statement setting forth for the first time MacArthur's views on the arguments cited by President Truman in firing him as Supreme U.S. and United Nations Commander.
The views of the statement are as follows:
1. The directive of Dec. 6 was not directed to General MacArthur personally, but was directed to all executive agencies of the government.
2. Immediately after its receipt, General MacArthur submitted a proposed communique to the joint chiefs of staff, who informed him among other things that it was not necessary to submit communiques referencing military operations.
3. The President, in a press conference on Jan. 13, appeared to this headquarters to define specifically General MacArthur's authority, but denied that there was any curb on his authority "to speak freely on the Korean war."
4. Furthermore, the directive of Dec. 6, by its terms and spirit, was interpreted at this headquarters as applying solely to formal public statements and not to communiques, correspondence, or personal conversations with others.
5. The general feels that he has complied meticulously with all directives he has received, not only recently, but throughout his entire military service.
6. The general has interpreted both his statement of March 24 and his letter to Congressman Martin, dispatched from here four days prior thereto, as dealing exclusively with the military situation and within the area of his uncontested authority to speak. The one bore no slightest relationship to the other.
7. The reference to arms for reserve elements of the Republic of Korea was taken from a top secret message of early January, 1951, while the army's retrograde movement from Seoul was in process and conditions indicated the possibility of evacuation. Subsequently, when our initiative had been reassumed, General MacArthur, within his capability to arm, authorised a 25 per cent increase in each Republic of Korea division, the increase to be in infantry riflesmie. It was obviously quite beyond the capability of this theater to arm and equip 500,000 more Koreans. Their utilization, therefore, became a matter of political policy under the global military assistance program.
45 Students To Study Missouri Geological Sites
A field trip to southeast Missouri will be taken by the 45 members of the historical geology class Friday through Sunday.
Cecil G. Lalicker, professor of geology, and his class will visit classic geologic localities south of St. Louis, including the St. Francis mountains. The group will travel by chartered
Noise, Ghosts, And Cops—Election Is Over
By VERNON SUTTON
It's all over now. After two months of campaigning, students were still unwilling to forget the election, even after the final election counts were in. They remained in Strong hall until almost midnight.
The winning party, F.A.C.T.S. gave color to the election by painting automobiles, blasting horns and using a portable public address system.
(The address system was banned by the administration with the aid of the campus police). They sent
ghosts to parade up and down the campus and past voting booths.
While both parties went in for elaborate campaigning, only one day's publicity gleaned two votes for Douglas MacArthur, R.O.T.C. student. Lester Young, tenor sax player, featured with Jazz at the
Philharmonic, received two votes for the A.S.C. presidency, Lester was a write-in candidate in the national election a few years ago and had a following of musicians and music enthusiasts.
MacArthur beat Truman by one vote. A student confided that since Truman already had a job, Mac-Arthur should be the man. Another student went all out and put his identification card into the ballot box.
But now it's all over.