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Joann Ruese, instructor of engineering drawing, and David Gagliardo, graduate student, are demonstrating a Swiss seat rapple, a technique used by mountain climbers to descend from sheer or steep cliffs. The nylon rope from which they are suspended is fastened to an anchor point at the top of the west wall of Memorial stadium.
Mountain Climbing's Fun Say KU Mountaineers
University students who have graduated with honors from the rigors of 14th street should be interested in the advanced training offered by the newly reorganized K.U. Mountain club.
The purpose of the club is to introduce the sport of mountain climbing, train the members in the accepted methods of climbing, and dispel the public notion that it is too dangerous for the average person to attempt.
A meeting at 7:30 p.m. today in 402 Lindley will be held especially for those who are interested in any phase of mountains or who would like to join the club, David Gagliano said today. Movies will be shown of trips made by theoulder chapter of the Colorado Mountain Climbing club, and an election of officers will be held.
The club, founded three years ago, became temporarily inactive. After reorganization recently by David Gagliardo, graduate student, and Gordon Stucker, special student, the K.U. mountaineers have a membership of 15 with W. W. Davis, professor of history, acting as sponsor. It is modeled after the Iowa Mountain club which is noted for its experience and technical mastery of the sport.
The first mountain climbing excursion sponsored by the club was made by five members to Estes Park, Colo., during the Thanksgiving vacation. Three, Joann Rusee, instructor of engineering drawing, Chapin Clark, college junior, and DeEtta Clark, college freshman, had no previous experience.
They spent the first four days practicing rock climbing technique and using ropes on cliffs and rock faces under the direction of Stucker and Gagliardo. On the final day,
they scaled 1,500 foot up Mt. Olympus.
The trip was inexpensive, about $25 per person because they rented a cabin and Miss Rusee planned and cooked the meals for the group. "We ate like harvest hands," she said.
Three members unsuccessfully attempted Long's Peak. The peak is easy to climb in summer, but the ascent was complicated by too much snow and ice in November weather. Though no special clothing must be used on such an outing, warmth without bulk, and toughness are especially desirable, Gagliardo said.
Another trip to Estes during the Easter holiday and two weeks of rock climbing classes this summer are planned. In the meantime, classes will be conducted by Stucker and Gagliardo in rope management, knot tying, rock climbing technique, and snow and ice climbing.
Gagliardo has climbed for about 10 years, and Stucker has had 15 years experience.
Mountain climbing was developed as a sport mainly by the British in Switzerland, and it is just now being recognized in America.
48th Year No. 57
Thursday, Dec. 7, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY
Lawrence, Kansas
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20,000 Marines Reported Escaping Red Encirclement
Tokyo—(U.P.)—Twenty thousand trapped U.S. marines and army men in northeast Korea were reported to be well on their way to safety today, with a hint that advance guards already have opened a path through encircling Chinese Communists.
A spokesman for Gen. Douglas MacArthur said the Chinese Reds were pouring across the Manchurian Yalu river frontier toward both east and west fronts in ever-increasing numbers.
The new drive was accompanied by twin thrusts south along both flanks of the 88th army's new positions just north of the 38th parallel and by guerrilla attacks which struck within 30 miles of Seoul.
An air report said the beleaguered Americans joined forces with a relief column driving up from the south in the mountains northeast of the bigAllied port of Hungnam.
One seven-mile long conveyy was spotted and attacked by the Far Eastern air forces south of the river Sakchu, above the western front.
Standing off Hungnam was a vast armada of transports and warships waiting to evacuate the Marines and other U.S. 10th corps troops out of Northeast Korea.
But in western Korea the Chinese Communists launched a new attack toward the 38th parallel, smashing into and through South Korean outposts 25 miles southeast of Pyong-yang.
Already, the spokesman said, 18 Chinese divisions totalling nearly 200,000 men are arrayed against the Allies on the western front and up to 9 divisions totaling more than 100,000 men on the eastern front.
The encircled American forces on the eastern front launched their breakout effort before dawn Wednesday.
At dawn, the combined forces 20,000 strong resumed the attack southward.
Guerrilla fighting behind the lines in Korea increased in intensity and South Korean President Syngman Rhee declared martial law to cope with the threat.
The Hagaru column reached Koto, seven miles south of Hagaru, and linked up with another Communist-encircled unit—the 1st regiment of the 1st marine division.
Some 15,000 men of the 1st marine divisions' 5th and 7th regiments, two regiments of the 7th infantry division and a small group of British commandos attacked south out of Hagaru at the southern tip of the Chosin reservoir.
One of the heaviest aerial and artillery bombardments of the Korean war supported the attack. But the ground forces almost literally had to cut their way through hordes of counter-attacking Chinese. Tanks fired into the enemy at point-blank range.
KU Senior Is In Race ForRhodesScholarship
Wilson E. O'Connell, College senior, is the only remaining contestant of four K.U. candidates for Rhodes scholarships. He and a student from Bethany college have been named to represent Kansas in the district selection at Des Moines Saturday.
English Poet To Talk At 4 Today
Dr. Edith Sitwell, one of England's most eminent and colorful poets, will speak at 4.p.m. today in Fraser theater. The public is invited.
Dr. Sitwell will speak on "Good Poetry and Bad." Her appearance at the University is sponsored by the department of English and the Museum of Art.
THE WEATHER
KANSAS: Occasional light snow tonight and Friday, becoming heavier Friday, particularly northwest. Warner tonight with low 15-20. Warmer east, turning colder northwest Friday afternoon. High Friday 25-30 east and south, 25 northwest.
Diplomatic discussions seeking a solution of the Korean war continued in Washington and Paris while informal talks went on among United Nations delegates.
In Washington, President Truman and British Prime Minister Clement Attlee discussed the crisis for the fifth time in four days. The further course of their talks was expected to depend partly on how quickly the Peking government replies to a 13-nation appeal to the Chinese Communists to halt at the 38th parallel.
O'Connell, who is majoring in speech and drama, is 21 and lives in Hutchinson. He and Paul Olsen, an 18-year-old senior at Bethany college in Lindsborg, were announced as Kansas winners by Dr. Emory Lindquist, president of Bethany college and secretary of the Kansas Rhodes scholarship selection committee.
In Des Moines, Iowa, the students will compete with 10 other students from the six-state area composed of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota. Four of these 12 contestants will win one of the 32 scholarships that are distributed all over the United States.
Cecil Rhodes, British statesman who endowed the scholarships, specified in his will that the scholars should be selected for literary and scholastic ability and attainment, character, and physical vigor. Some definite quality of distinction, whether in intellect, character, or personality, is the most important requirement.
The annual value of the scholarship is 400 pounds, about $1,000, with a present supplement of 100 pounds, bringing the total to approximately $1,400 a year.
Scholars elected will enter Oxford in October, 1951, to study for two years. A third year may be granted to scholars whose record and plan of study makes such an award advisable.
A Rhodes scholar has been elected from K.U. for each of the past three years. In 1948 two students were selected from Kansas.
10 Students Favor, 7 Oppose US Attempt To Re-Invade Korea
If the United Nations troops are pushed out of Korea, should they re-invade and attempt again to drive the Communists out of Korea?
Miss W. D. Lowrance, assistant professor of Latin: "I don't know. I am inclined to think that it would be a bad thing for us to 'lose face' in Korea. I believe in peace with honor, but I'm not sure how far we should go with it. I certainly agree that Europe is our first line of defense."
Eighteen University students and one professor were asked this question. Ten were opposed to re-invasion, seven believed the U.N. should return, and two had no definite opinion.
Charles Burch. College sophomore: "I believe that they should go back because communist China is acting in direct defiance of the U.N. If you let them take Korea and just go back, that would be appeasement. You cannot afford to appease Communists."
Robert Edman, education senior:
"I don't think they should because it seems the United Nations forces may be needed at more important places—such as Western Europe."
Jack Dressler, business junior:
"No. We don't have enough manpower. Going back to Korea would cost lives and equipment, and would do no good because we still would not be fighting Russia itself. The Russians are using Chinese and North Koreans to drain our military strength."
Robert Foster, business senior: "I think it would be futile for the U.N. to go back in Korea if they are driven out."
Fredrick R. Young, College sophomore: "If such a defeat begins to look inevitable, we should withdraw before we lose more men. Russia is bleeding us and weakening us so they can move into western Germany at the opportunity moment If we can't hold Germany and Korea both, we should withdraw from Korea."
William Leake, engineering senior: "No. I think it would be a waste of time to send a United Nations force in against 10 million armed men which, according to U.S. s.' World Reports', is the number of experienced infantrymen the Chinese Communists have.
Wayne Davis, engineering junior:
"No. It would take a tremendous force to cope with the Chinese. Even if we should re-invade Korea there would be no end in sight. Nothing would be accomplished unless we drove on to Moscow and the probability of our being able to do this is very slight."
William Stratton, journalism senior, said, "Yes. We should invade, providing I'm 4-F and safe at home."
Raymond Oswald, engineering junior, veteran, "Definitely. The place to stop aggression is where it begins. None of us is foolish enough to believe that should the communists succeed in Korea, the threat of war would end."
Lloyd Fox, engineering junior;
"As far as principles are concerned,
we should keep trying until we succeed in chasing the communists out of Korea or discouraging them from advancing farther. The only fallacy in this plan is the chance that we couldn't succeed in turning the Reds back, since it is well known that they outnumber us in men and are probably equal in materials. If we
were to pull out of Korea now and let them have it, I don't suppose they would stop there long. It looks like our hand is forced; we must fight this thing to a showdown either by arms or politics."
William Conroy, second law year, veteran: "Right now no. We should back down to the 38th parallel because we never should have gone beyond it."
John Griffin, business junior; "The only advantage would be to uphold our prestige at the cost of thousands" more American lives. I would say no."
Marion Herman, college sophomore: "No, we would be risking too much for what little we would gain. I don't believe Korea is worth a bird's war."
Miss Michiko Yamasaki, education
fellow to Hawaii: "If the si-
tle"
George F enrich, engineering sophomore: "Nuts to this stuff about saving face. If we can get out in one piece I would favor staying out. However, if the Red's try to invade Japan or Formosa, I think we should hit them with everything we've got."
uation is left alone like it is now,
Russia and China will go ahead in Asia. I think we should have all countries in the U.N. cooperating to show the effectiveness of the U.N."
Beverly Wilson, education junior:
"If they don't try to get back in Korea and conquer the communists, the communists will think they got away with it in one place and they can do it in the rest. It's our duty to go back in and keep them where they belong."
Robert Johnson, graduate student and veteran: "I think the United Nations troops should re-invade Korea. If the communists aren't stopped, they will overrun all of the Orient. It seems that a third world war is inevitable at this time. I don't know any real solution to the world's problem. If I did I'd be the smartest man in the world."
James Hardin, College freshman: "I really don't know, but I think we should build up our nation's defense first and introduce military training."