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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1951
LT. COL. LYNN R. MOORE, professor of air science and tactics, second from left, together with Cadet Col. Arthur O. Kaaz. Jr., cadet group commander, welcomes newly appointed cadet staff officers for the spring term.
58 Air Force Cadets Promoted In ROTC
Receiving congratulations are, from left to right; Cadet Maj. James R. Selig, appointed group adjutant; Cadet Maj. Keith G. Moore, group training officer; Cadet Capt. John P. Fredericks, group personnel officer, and Cadet Maj. Maurice L. Wells, group project officer.
Fifty-eight cadets in the air force R.O.T.C. unit have received promotions for the spring semester, Cadet Col. Arthur O. Kaaz, Jr., group commander, announced today.
In addition to the newly appointed staff officers, cadets promoted to serve as squadron commanders and light and element leaders include: Majors Frederick G. Apt, Charles H. Apt; Captains Francis R. O'Kane, James R. Rich, Benny G. Simpson, George W. Plant, Harvey A. Jetmore, Channing G. Hiebert, Curtis E. Adams, George W. Lukens, Thomas J. Halpin, and John E. Kipp.
First Lieutenant appointments went to Herbert B. Wilder, Kenneth G. Garrett, Ralph C. Blades, Jr., Roy E. Knapp, Reuben R. Brown, Frank L. Smith, Gerald F. Punteney, William D. Reilly, Eugene Turner, Bernard E. Boyle, and Raymond E. Garden.
Promoted to First Sergeants for the spring term were Ben F. Charrier, Robert D. Wilbur, and Melvin E. Smith. New Staff Sergeants include William G. Reschke, Bernard
E. Hentzen, William D. Rhue, John W. Davis, Jr., Charles H. Schafer, Jerry J. Berkley, Richard E. Brecko, John H. Kelso, Keith F. Clifton, Donald E. Kramer, and Elias M. Hernandez.
Appointments to posts of leadership in the first year advanced group went to First Sergeants Sterling S. Waggoner, Damon G. Simpson and Burley O. Vandergriff. Promoted to Technical Sergeant were Eugene W Haley, Sam P. Willcoxon, Kerwin S. Koerper, Robert L. Dare, and Ronald B. Stang.
New Staff Sergeants in the first year advanced corps are Eugene E. Westergren, Philip E. Peterson James K. Logan, Granville E. Canaday, Aubrey G. Linville, Richard W Wood, George R. Docking, Paul E. Parker, and William C. Monday.
Singapore, Fabled 'City Of The Lion' Arms Herself For Possible Invasion
Singapore, "City of the Lion," fabled halfway house of world commerce, is grimly facing the prospect of again becoming the defensive pivot for the riches of Southeast Asia.
As Communist armies overrun much of Korea, invade Tibet, and carry war into Indochina, Singapore is reported again preparing for all-out defense against possible assaults. After the conquest of the city in February, 1942, by the Japanese was a bitter lesson not to be forgotten.
An island seaport which tips the south-pointing Malay Peninsula, thumb of continental Asia, Singapore has been great Britain's gateway to the East for a century and a half. The city is one of the world's busiest trading post in rubber, tin and quinine, and one of the Far East's greatest naval bases.
Singapore's population has grown until today it is close to a million. It is a melting pot of Chinese, Malays, Indians, Arabs, Javanese, Burmese, Tibetans, Japanese, English Americans. A large majority are Chinese.
At the time World War II erupted in the Pacific, Singapore with its great naval base was considered an impregnable bastion. Coastal fortifications bristled with guns emplaced to rebel a sea attack.
Japan struck swiftly by land and through the air instead. The milewide mato of Johore Strait between the city and the mainland failed to prove a major obstacle for the Japanese forces swarming down from beachheads on the Malayan causeway. The fall of Singapore in the
This time there is little talk of "impregnable fortress." Another overland attack could be stopped, Singapore's defenders believe, if enough troops are available to seal off the Malay Peninsula's narrow neck to the north.
opening weeks of the war was a disastrous blow.
A "fellow." as distinguished from an ordinary member, qualifies as a professional anthropologist. Only fellows may hold office and vote in the association. Dr. Baur joined the K.U. faculty in 1947.
Dr. Edward Jackson Baur, associate professor of sociology, was notified today of his election as "Fellow of the American Anthropological association." The selection was made by the association's executive board.
Dr. Baur Is Elected A 'Fellow' Of Group
Chess Club Will Meet Today In Union Ballroom
June Graduates To Plan Interviews
The Business Placement bureau will conduct a meeting at 3 p.m. Wednesday in Strong auditorium for all June graduates interested in securing job interviews this semester.
The Chess club will meet at 7 p.m. today in the Union ballroom. At its last meeting the club played a Swiss-style tournament to determine a preliminary competitive ladder.
Hungarian Exile To Teach Music
The Bureau has a list of several companies who have already made plans for interviews. If unable to attend the meeting, students may pick up the necessary information in the bureau's office, 214 Strong hall.
Ernst von Dohnanyi, composer, pianist, and conductor, will arrive at the University Monday, Feb. 12 to begin a 2-week guest professorship in the School of Fine Arts, Thomas Gorton, dean of the school announced today.
"We are happy for the opportunity to offer our students and friends of the University these contacts with so great a music personality," Dean Gordon said. "Dohnanyi is among the top figures in the music world."
He was principal conductor of the Budapest Philharmonic society for 30 years.
The exiled Hungarian musician representative of the romantic music school will make several public appearances during his stay as well as teach master classes in piano and composition.
Student television fans had to abandon their favorite sport Monday when electric current to the Union building was cut off for five hours.
Power Break Slows Union
A power shovel digging in the excavation south of the Union severed the main electric cable about 10:15 am. The situation might have been that the operator of the scoop had not the electricity bee grounded by dirt.
Food which is ordinarily transported on a service elevator had to be carried from the main kitchen to the second and third floors of the Union during the noon hour. Candles and soap are placed in the fountain. Mixers, refrigerators, dishwashers and other labor-saving devices sat useless.
Despite their mechanical handicap the Union staff prepared a luncheon and three dinners in addition to the usual cafeteria menu.
William J. Van Almeng, College sophomore, Tuesday filed a petition with the city clerk to become a candidate for one of the posts of the five man city commission of Lawrence.
Student Files For Office
It is doubtful if Van Almen will be allowed to run as candidate for the office because of a problem in residence. According to available information, a candidate must be 25 years old and have lived in the city three years before he can become a candidate for commissioner. Van Almen is 27 years old but has lived here only a year and five months. He said he was not told at the city clerk's office of a three year residence requirement.
Van Almen hopes to become a city manager and felt that sitting on a commission would help him to understand the commissioner's problems if and when he obtains a job as a manager.
Episcopal students will receive the Imposition of Ashes and Holy Communion at 7 a.m. Wednesday in Danforth chapel. Father Louis Basso, Jr., assistantactor of Trinity Episcopal church, will conduct the service.
To Hold Episcopal Service
'The Pink Lady' Charms With Old Tunes And Love
By VERNON SUTTON
Forty years ago people were humming the tunes "By the Saskatchewan" and the dreamy "Beautiful Lady Waltz." It won't be surprising if University of Kansas students are humming these same tunes shortly. For no one there will forget "The Pink Lady" performed Monday evening in Fraser theater.
The University of Kansas Light Opera Guild, through the dainty, lifting idiom of Caryl, enhanced an audience which left Fraser theater content with the first performance. Without competition from basketball games for the three remaining performances, audiences should be good.
The Cavyll and McLellan classic of 1911 did not suffer from age in the hands of the University cast. Jeanne Aldridge, graduate student in the School of Fine Arts, who plays Claudine, the Pink Lady, and Gene Courtney, instructor in speech, who appears as Monsieur Dondier were, without a doubt, standouts of the first night.
Thomas Shay, instructor in speech, portrayed the colorful and un-Sherlock Holmes type of detective, Benevol. Shay added his own nimble
freshness to the "Bring Along a Camera" number in act one. Fred Tarry, fine arts freshman kept the air of the "everything's under control" Lucien Garidel.
There were notable performances in the supporting cast, Dale Moore, fine arts freshman, was ideal as Bebe Guingolph, the meek brother of Angele, who avoided women but almost succumbed to affections of several French maidens. Moore was particularly appealing in handling the lines, "I hate you!" I hate you!' which could easily have seemed trite
James Ralston, education junior was right at home in the role of Maurice D'Uzac, and with Phyllis McFarland, fine arts junior, gave life and gaiety to the number "Love is Divine" in act one.
VA To Pay GI Insurance Dividends To 8 Million
In the new dividend anyone who took out a policy before 1951 and held it in force for three months or longer during 1948, 1949 and 1950 will be eligible.
The amount of individual payments will depend on the number of months the policy was in force, the plan of insurance, face value of the policy and the age of the insured at the time it became effective. The agency's insurance experts are still working on rate schedules but
In that dividend, a surplus of $2,800,000,000 was available for distribution among 15,000,000 policyholders. The dividend covered from 1940, when the national life insurance law was passed, through the anniversary date of policies in 1948.
Washington—(U.P.)The veterans administration will start paying a second GI insurance dividend of 685 million dollars in April to about 8 million veterans.
Administrator Carl R. Gray, Jr., was unable to say what the most any one holder of a national service life insurance would receive. But it was certain to be less than the maximum of $528 paid under the first dividend.
expect to have them completed soon.
Unlike the first dividend, it will not be necessary for a policyholder to apply for the forthcoming payment. The V.A. said it will automatically send his check to his last address on the agency's records, cases where there is a question about the address, it will send the policyholder a two-part postcard for verification of the address before mailing the check.
The agency said the first checks, those for policies with anniversary dates in January, will be ready for mailing in April. Others will follow in order of their anniversary dates. Once this round of payments is completed, the V.A. hopes to pay all future dividends annually.
Mrs. Bowen told how she spent two years doing reading for her latest biography "John Adams—the Story of the American Revolution." Her research might be divided into three types, she said, research about things, about people, and about ideas. She emphasized the importance of trying to imagine how the people of the period felt.
Historical writers who use the narrative form have to be especially careful "never to deceive the reader," Catherine Drinker Bowen, biographer, told a Fraser theater audience Monday.
Historical Writers Should Be Careful Never Deceive Reader: Mrs. Bowen
After two years of research Mrs. Bowen spent one year writing a straight chronology of John Adams' life and two years writing the book. It is the story of the statesman's life from 1735 until he was 40 years old.
"Everybody knows what happened in history." Mrs. Bowen said. It is the author's job to take the reader back and give him the feeling of the time. Mrs. Bowen uses newspapers of the period she is studying to help acquire a contemporary viewpoint.
This does not mean that a writer must avoid interpreting facts Mrs. Bowen said. "Only God could write an objective history of the United States," she said, "and from my experience I don't know a publisher who would take it.
"We artists are all interpreters. We are sieves. Some of us have big holes and some of us have little holes. The material comes through in different shapes."
Discussing plots Mrs. Bowen said,
"In biography we cannot invent the conflict. If we have studied long enough our material will open up a plot to us." The plot of the John Adams story is Adams' struggle to independence and colonies to independence and assertion of national ambitions which this invoked.
Mrs. Bowen has written in addition to the John Adams story "Beloved Friend," "Free Artists," and "Yankee from Olympus." She does not agree with the self expression theory of writing to please only oneself. "Art is communication," she said.
THE WEATHER
Topeka—(U.P.)—Preliminaries of a cold wave were evident in Kansas today. Skies were cloudy, winds were increasing, and temperatures were falling.
Richard Garrett, Kansas weather man, said the cold wave conditions will be felt this afternoon and continue into the night.
He predicted strong northerly winds with a few snow flurries concentrating in the northern part of the state tonight and cold weather over the entire state tomorrow. He said temperatures will be well below freezing tomorrow.
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