UNIVERSITY
DAILY
18th Year No. 101 Monday, March 5, 1951
Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Petitions are being circulated on the campus in protest of the All Student Council's refusal to support the proposed state fair employment practice bill.
Petitions Are Circulated In Protest Of ASC Action
ployment practice bill. A measure to voice A.S.C.support of the bill was defeated by one vote at a meeting of the council Feb. 27.
The protest petitions state the following:
We, the undersigned students of the University of Kansas, declare our support of the Fair Employment Practices commission and call upon the A.S.C. to positively support the bill now in the state legislature.
state registration. Your negative action as our representatives in effect is a statement that the student body of the University of Kansas favors discrimination—discrimination that affects us directly as students and citizens.
As nearly as could be determined this morning, the petitions are not being circulated by any particular campus political faction and are not being circulated for political reasons. They were printed by several
James Logan, chairman of F.A.C.T.S., student political party, and Melvin Clingan, president of the All Student Council, were unavailable for comment on the petitions.
students who were incensed by the Council's action.
The proposed bill is designed to prevent employment practices and policies based on race, color, religion, or ancestral background.
It contains provisions for a commission to prevent such discrimination and defines the duties of the commission. It states that violation by any person, employer, employment agency, or labor organization shall be treated as a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment of not more than one year, or a fine of not more than $1,000, or both.
Wreck Doesn't Stop Musicians
Despite an auto accident, the Loewenguth String trio and Marisa Regules will appear here Monday, March 12, sponsored by the University Chamber Music series.
The group, originally a quartet,
assumed their concert tour Feb. 26.
other being hospitalized for injuries
received when their car skidded on
an ice highway near Rochester, Jan.
15.
Roger Roche, viola player of the quartet, was injured seriously and was flown back to France. The group will appear here with two violins and a cello and Miss Regules at the piano.
Alfred Loewenguth, Maurice Fueri, and Pierre Basseux compose the trio. They and Mr. Roche play the only complete quartet of Amati instruments in existence. Miss Regules, Argentine pianist, has appeared with them on this tour.
Senior To Present Recital At 8 Tonight
Robert Wynne, piano major in the School of Fine Arts, will present his senior recital at 8 p.m. today in Strong auditorium.
Wynne, a student of Jan Chiapuso, has also studied with Joanna Graudan at the Music Academy of the West, at Santa Barbara, Calif. under a scholarship. He was a scholarship performer in the master classes of Carl Friedberg and Soulima Stravinkys. In 1946 he was winner of the state audition of the Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs and also of the Midwest Music auditions.
auditions.
The program will consist of Bach's "Overture in French manner," Beethoven's "Sonata, 78 in F sharp," Schumann's "Fantasiesstucke in a flat" and "Tocata," Chopin's "Fantasy in F minor," and Prokoeffe's "Third Sonata."
There is no admission charge and the public is invited.
Tennis Candidates To Meet Teusday
All K.U. Varsity tennis candidates are urged to meet at the Memorial stadium courts south end of stadium) at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Glen Tongier, tennis coach, announced today.
Socialist Head To French Post
Paris (U.P.)-Guy Mollet, 43-year head of the French Socialist party, accepted today the difficult task of forming a new government to end a five-day-old political crisis.
Kansas Alerted For Escaped Omaha Bandits
Mr. Mollet, an almost unknown figure outside France, told President Vincent Auriel he would accept the premiership vacated last week by Rene Pleven in a crisis over a new electoral law.
Mr. Mollet said his consultations with party leaders during the last two days has convinced him he could find cooperation among the quarreling parties and form amidle-road coalition government.
He scheduled a meeting of the ask for a vote of confidence endorsing him as premier. ___
Capt. Evelyn Girard, a representative of the Women's Medical Specialist corps of the army, will be here Tuesday to talk with University women interested in therapy work in the army.
Capt. Girard will be on the campus in the afternoon and evening. At 4 p.m. she will meet with women considering entering the army. At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the English room of the Union building, she will speak on opportunities for women in the W.M.S.C.
Therapist To Talk On Army Service
L. E. Woolley, manager, announced that in January the bookstore declared arebate of $20,316. About 80 per cent of that rebate, $15,972, has been paid out. At least 85 per cent of the declared rebate is expected to be paid out.
Rebates were paid out at a faster rate by the Student Union bookstore during the past two months than ever before.
The W.M.S.C. is composed of dieticians, physical therapists, and occupational therapists in the army medical department. Graduates in these fields may become commissioned officers in the army if physically fit.
Book Store Rebates To Students Increase
Omaha. Neb. (U.P.)—A four-state alarm was sounded today for two outlaws and an accomplice who helped them break out of the county jail, kidnapped four men as hostages, and released them unharmed 60 miles south of here.
Mr. Woolley said the increased rate of receipt cashing might reflect a greater student understanding of bookstore operating procedures. The bookstore was established in the summer of 1946.
The four hostages were freed about eight miles from Auburn, Neb. at a farmhouse where the fugitives terrorized a family and stole an automobile, the third they had used in their flight.
Officers throughout Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri were alerted for the men, described by Douglas county sheriff Richard Collins as "desperate, vicious and trigger-happy."
"I don't think they'll give up without a fight," he said. "But so far as we know, they have only one pistol between them."
The escapees were Dewey Battershaw, 21, Omaha, and Victor Sweet, 24, Hartington, Neb., who were awaiting trial for a filling station robbery here.
They broke out of the jail yesterday with the aid of a "mid-looking" man who came to the jail as a visitor and suddenly pulled a pistol. He locked up two deputies in the sixth-floor jail at the courthouse and freed Battershaw and Sweet.
From there, the escape became a nightmare story in which the fugitives kidnapped four men, held two of them captive during a weird 30-block ride on a crowded bus, and engaged in a dice game with their prisoners.
As the outlaws and their accomplice walked calmly from the building, they kidnapped Deputy Cliff Hansen and Attorney John Baldwin, forcing them along at gunpoint.
Debaters Win At St. Paul Meet
Four University debaters won 15 out of 17 debates at the St. Thomas tournament in St. Faul, Minn., over the week-end, to compile the best over-all record of any school represented.
in the preliminary rounds, the team of Goodwin and Turner won seven out of eight debates losing only to St. Olaf's college, the final tournament victor. Mills and Shearer came through undefeated in eight rounds.
Debating for K.U. were Lee Turner, second year law; Guy Goodwin, first year law; Steve Mills and Kent Shearer, College seniors.
Shearer and Mills ranked third and fifth respectively in total speaker ratings among some 300 student debaters from 75 schools. No other school approached this two-man record, Dr. Kim Giffin, professor of speech, who accompanied the debaters to St. Paul, said today.
KANSAS: Cold weather which raged in the northern portion of the United States over the weekend is headed towards the Sunflower state, but probably considerably modified.
On the basis of cumulative speaker ratings, Mills and Shearer qualified for the quarterfinal elimination round. They debated against the same St. Thomas team which they had met previously and defeated This time, however, St. Thomas squeezed through by a 2 to 1 judges decision.
WEATHER
UN Units Advance In'Killer' Offensive
Tokyo—(U.P.)—An 8th army spearhead drove through the east Korean mountains only 25 miles from the 38th parallel today, but heavy fighting still raged to the southwest.
Elements of the South Korean 7th division have reached the Hajinbu area in the northernmost advance of the current Allied "killer offensive," an 8th army communique reported
They killed 35 Reds and captured two others in a fire fight there Sunday. However, air spotters reported 6,500 Communists massing north, northeast and northwest of the town.
Nine miles to the southwest, U. S. 7th division forces pushed within 500 yards of Changpyong before running into Communist resistance.
Other 7th division units joined elements of the U. S. 2nd division in a three-pronged attack that rammed nearly a mile and a half into a Communist mountain stronghold still farther southwest.
The bowl-shaped redoubt 10 miles northwest of Pangnim and five miles above the Pangnim-Hoengsong highway menaces the U. S. and South Korean 7th division columns thrusting toward Changgyong and Hajinbu. Two air force observers reported 50 air strikes within an hour in the Taemi area this afternoon.
One of the three attacking columns seized high ground only 1,500 yards south of and overlooking Taemi, center of a windswept plateau bristling with guns, tunnels, log bunkers and trenches manned by up to 6,000 North Koreans.
French units attached to the 2nd division battled 120 entrenched Communists $4 \frac{1}{2}$ miles northeast of Haanhung at such close quarters
that Allied planes could not support them.
But Allied air fleets found plenty of other targets. They had one of their best days in several weeks against Communist troop concentrations, the 5th air force reported.
Pilots claimed to have killed or wounded more than 750 enemy troops in 670 sorties up to late afternoon. They hit more than 50 towns and villages in armed reconnaissance flights behind Communist lines.
U. N. divisions west of the east-central front came to a virtual halt to consolidate newly-won positions and beat off small-scale Communist counterattacks.
They were taking a heavy toll of Chinese and Korean reeds. Nearly 10,000 enemy troops have been killed or wounded since March 1 alone, and the total since January 25 exceeds 128,000.
Apparently undismayed by the mounting losses, the Communist command was pouring reinforcements and supplies to the fighting front either to ward off new U.N. blows or to prepare a Red offensive. The reinforcements headed principally toward the embattled central front on either side of Hoengsong and the dormant western front around Seoul.
Foreign Ministers Meet To Decide Big Four Agenda
Paris—(U.P.)Deputy foreign ministers of the United States, Britain, France and Russia met here today to try to reach agreement on an agenda for a full conference of the Big Four foreign ministers later this year.
Delegates of the Western nations went into the opening session united in a firm "no appeasement" front against Russia. They warned they would reject Soviet claims that proposed German rearmament is the only cause for the present world tension.
The meeting started at 4:15 p.m. (9:15 a.m. CST). The representatives sat behind closed doors to arrange the first council of foreign ministers meeting in nearly two years.
U. S. Ambassador-at-large Phillip C. Jessup the German problem can not be singled out by the Russians as the sole basis for negotiation of East-West differences.
He said the U.S. is not shying away from a solution of East-West differences. Instead, he said, the Western powers are determined to get down to the basic issues. They will refuse to be side-tracked by any Soviet efforts to blame the source of tensions on irrelevant issues, he added.
The three Western delegations
2. Blame the size of Soviet and satellite armed forces in Europe for European tension.
were understood to have agreed in advance to:
1. "Aact tough" in the early stages of the talks.
3. Fight any Soviet attempt to limit the proposed conference of Big Four foreign ministers to a discussion of the rearmament of Germany.
Deputy foreign minister Andrei Gromyko heads the Soviet delegation; Ambassador-at-large Phillip C. Jesup, the American; foreign undersecretary Ernest Davies, the British, and foreign office secretary-general Alexandre Parodi, the French.
Swarthout Thrilled To See Campanile Bells In England
Donald M. Swarthout, professor of piano, said it was a great thrill to step into the foundry at Loughborough, England, and see the University campanile carillon set up.
Professor Swarthout, former dean of the School of Fine Arts, returned March 2 from England where he tested the S3 bells. He spent four days in Loughborough and four days in London.
Besides playing the bells, Professor Swartouth heard Henry Jordon, official carillonneur in Loughborough, give a demonstration recital on the KU. bells.
Professor Swarthout was interviewed by the British Broadcasting company. One program was shortwaved to America. He also appeared on a television show. On this show he commented on the bells which were shown in the background. He later heard the broadcasts and described them as "splendid."
The bells were heard inside the foundry amidst all the factory noise. Even with all the noise, Professor Swarthout was "immensely impressed by the richness of the bells." They should sound even better outside, he said.
Officials of John Taylor and Sons foundry, the bell makers, believe they are the finest set of bells they have made.
Professor Swarthout went through the factory and saw other bells made by hot metal poured into molds
He said the bells should be here about mid-April. Frank Godfrey, engineering supervisor in charge of construction, will accompany them and check the installation.
The bells will not be played until the dedicatory services scheduled for Sunday, May 27.