Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
UNIVERSITY DAILY
18th Year No. 51
Wednesday, Nov. 29, 1950
Lawrence Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
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ONE OF THESE GIRLS will be presented as queen of the military ball by orchestra leader Frankie Masters Friday evening. The remaining two girls will be her attendants. The queen will be presented with a crown of gold chrysanthemums and a bouquet of Red Delight roses, and her attendants with bouquets of white and yellow snapdragons. The identity of the queen will remain a secret until she is presented at intermission. Pictured from left to right are Marcia Horn, College sophomore, Chi Omega sorority; Virginia Nalley, College sophomore, Delta Gamma sorority; Nancy Lichty, fine arts sophomore, Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.
Crime Investigator To Address Students
Tennessee's Sen. Estes Kefauer,
chairman of the Senate Crime-Investigation committee and a member of the Armed Services committee,
will speak at a special convocation at 9:20 a.m. Thursday in Hoch auditorium.
Classes will be shortened for the convocation. Eight o'clock classes will meet from 8 to 8:30 a.m., 9 a.m. classes will meet from 8:40 to 9:10 a.m., 10 a.m. classes will meet from 10:40 to 11:10 a.m., and 11 a.m. classes will meet from 11:20 to 11:50 a.m. Convocation will last from 9:20 to 10:30 a.m.
Senator Kefauver's talk, "Which Way America," will be an analysis of the major issues before Congress and the American people.
Senator Kefauver was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1939 and served as a member of the House until 1948. He was elected to the Senate in 1948 over the bitter opposition of the powerful political machine of E.H. Crump, Memphis political leader of long and successful standing.
The Crime Investigation committee was Senator Kefauver's own idea. He became convinced that syndicated crime was a highly organized and lucrative business when he read over reports filed by commissions in California, Michigan, and Illinois.
Realizing that the problem was beyond the power of local governments and that Federal Legislation was desperately needed, he introduced the idea of an extensive investigation to the Senate. The Senate authorized the organization of the committee and it has been operating since February, 1950.
The 6 foot 5 inch, 220 pound Senator graduated from the University of Tennessee with an A.B. degree in 1924. While a student at the University he was president of the student body, editor of the campus weekly publication, and starred four years on the football and track teams.
Senator Estes Kefauver
Another 24 or more hours of pleasant fall weather were forecast for Kansas today.
In the last 24 hours Kansas readings ranged from 17 at Fort Leavenworth and 77 at Garden City.
WEATHER
UN Forces Reel Under Red Blows
Major War Possibility Faces Grim Congress
Washington (U.P.)—A worried capital grimly faced today the possibility of all-out war with Communist China as the price for further defense of Korea. Official Washington agreed the gravest crisis since World War II is at hand.
So far as could be learned, the only concrete plans are to make every attempt to stem the advancing Red troops in Korea and to press the charge of "aggression" against Communist China in the United Nations.
President Truman was in constant touch with military and diplomatic advisers. But all signs indicated decisions on future U.S. moves will come slowly.
The big question was: "What will Russia do?"
Secretary of State Dean Acheson told congress that Red China's move must be a feint to mask an impending Soviet attack on Western Europe.
Soviet attack on Western Europe
Barring a move by Russia, officials
2. The Chinese Reds may back down and agree to some kind of a settlement.
'Lame Duck' Session Shows Sudden Eagerness
saw at least three possible outcomes and predicted the next 48 hours may give some indication of which one is most likely. They listed them as:
The full impact of the crisis hit the capital when Gen. Douglas MacArthur flashed word from his Tokyo headquarters that 200,000 Chinese Reds had crossed the Manchurian border to confront the United Nations with "a new war."
Acheson and Defense Secretary George C. Marshall said the situation was "very serious . . . very critical." Marshall urged the nation to be "careful, calm, and wise" in meeting it.
3. A drawn-out conflict that might well lead to World War III.
1. The United States will accept defeat and withdraw its forces from Korea.
Washington—U.P.)—Congress read gloomy news from Korea today and showed a sudden eagerness to tackle parts of President Truman's program for the lame duck session.
The report of large-scale Chinese intervention in Korea induced a noticeable change among the lawmakers who only 24 hours earlier had seen disinterested in most of Mr Truman's proposals.
As one senate Republican leader put it: "This will put steam behind anything connected with the war—appropriations, rent control and taxes."
The outlook for other measures still was uncertain, but administration informants reported a preliminary check showed increasing senate support for a rent extension.
The president asked for an excess profits levy to raise $4,000,000,000 a year. Republicans would substitute an increase in regular corporate income rates.
Mr. Truman has asked congress to extend the present law 90 days to give time for congress to review the problem next year. Federal controls are now due to expire Dec. 31 unless local communities take action to keep them in force another six months.
Aid-to-Tito, rent controls, taxes, and defense funds were listed by Mr. Truman among the legislation requiring "greatest urgency."
Tokyo—(U.P.)—Six Chinese Communist armies smashed within 40 miles of Pyongyang in northwest Korea today and drove United Nations forces across the ice-covered Chongchon river, where they fought a bloody delaying action in a desperate effort to keep from being trapped.
High defense officials in Washington believed General MacArthur's outnumbered forces can hold a defense line across the narrow waist of Korea, just north of Pyongyang in the west and Wonsan in the east, with the aid of overwhelming air and naval superiority.
A Washington dispatch said General MacArthur advised defense officials he planned to stabilize the battle line. after retreating no more than 15 or 25 miles.
Late dispatches gave this picture of the embattled Allied divisions on the northwest front:
The Communist onslaught already had shortened the Allied line in the north from 85 miles to a precarious 30 by caving in the whole eastern end and forcing the 24th division in the west to pull back.
U. S. 1st cavalry division—Killed 500 to 600 Communists in a mounting battle 11 miles southwest of Wawon near the eastern end of the line
U. S. 2nd Division-Retreated south from Kujang, Changson and Won under heavy Communist pressure.
U. S. 25th division-Pulled back across the Chongchon river. Infiltrating Communist troops ambushed some vehicles behind the lines.
U. S. 24th division—Held on to its bridgehead across the Taeryong river between Pakchon and Chongju on the northwest coast.
Kansas-Missouri Football Movies To Be Shown
South Korean 1st division — Fell back across the Taeryong river below Taechon and abandoned Yongsa.
Movies of the Kansas-Missouri football game will be shown at 7 p.m. tonight in Fraser theater. There will be no charge for admittance. A member of the Varsity football coaching staff will narrate the game play-by-play.
Smith Tells Students Tolerance Is Essential
Tolerance of others' opinions is the essence of the democratic way of life, Dr. T. V. Smith told students at the ninth "World in Crisis" lecture Tuesday evening, Dr. Smith is professor of philosophy, poetry, and political science at Syracuse university.
Dr. Smith said history shows that groups attaining power always attempt to force their dogma upon others. He cited intolerant acts of Roman Catholics, Protestants, and Mohammedans as examples of the misuse of power.
The democratic way of life is a discovery that men do not have to agree upon fundamental faith to live together in peace and harmony," Dr. Smith said. "In human relations, the other man's 'error' is his way of seeking the truth."
"The affirmation of democracy is that the individual is the center of value. The most fundamental of all rights is the right of the individual to be let alone."
The individual, like the group, must discipline himself against intolerance. Dr. Smith said. A man decides something is wrong with the world, so he sets out to do something about it himself, disregarding the opinions of others.
The democratic way of life offers a balance between freedom of the individual and protection required against the misuse of individual freedom by others, Dr. Smith said.
He quoted Justice Holmes: "The proudest day in my life was the day I discovered I was not God."
KU Team Will Argue On Artificial Rainmaking
The status of artificial rainmaking will be argued in the national finals of a moot court in New York by three third year law students.
The students, who are flying to New York today are Keith Wilson, Richard Harris, and Wallace Foster. In St. Louis the university team defeated St. Louis, Washington, and Kentucky universities on Nov. 16. Robert H. Jackson, supreme court justice, Harold. Medina, district judge, and three other judges of national fame will judge the finals.
The St. Louis competition was won by the K.U. team. They argued for the defendant in a mock suit involving artificial rainsmaking. The plaintiff was a landowner who ordinarily received most of the rain in an area because of a mountain near his land. He contended that the defendant seeded the clouds with dry ice and
caused the rain to fall before it would have fallen by natural phenomenon.
The K.U. team drew a diagram showing that a well on the defendant's property tapping an underground stream running toward land owned by the person who brought the suit would be legal by past precedent.
The K.U. team then turned the diagram over to visually prove that the well tapping an underground stream was analogous to the seeding of clouds with dry ice and therefore legal. Several other arguments were used to help support their case.
In the New York competition the Kansas team will be prepared to plead either side of the argument.