Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
University Daily Hansan 48th Year No.35
Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
George B. Shaw Dies At 94 At English Home
Ayot St. Lawrence, Eng., Nov. 2
(U.P.)George Bernard Shaw, 94
one of Britain's greatest playwrights
died peacefully in a coma early today at his brick, ivy-covered victorian house.
Death came at 4:59 a.m. (11:59 pm. Wednesday E.S.T.). The last recorded words of the bearded wit and philosopher whose works enriched three generations were "I am tired. I want to sleep."
He had uttered them more than 26 hours earlier to his friend of 40 years standing, Virginia-born viscountess Astor, just before lapsing into final unconsciousness.
He died of the after-effects of operations for a broken thigh, kidney and bladder trouble, and a bronchial difficulty that hampered his breathing. Realizing after the operations that he would be an invalid for the rest of his life, he lost interest in living and gradually weakened.
Shaw is expected to be cremated in accordance with his own wish. The cremation presumably will be in a crematorium in which he was a large stockholder.
His will is to be filed shortly for probate. Although he is believed to have earned more in his lifetime than any playwright in history, his estate is not expected to exceed $1,400,000, and may be considerably less. His income was so large that he had to turn over nearly 97 per cent of it to the British government in surtaxes.
The home in which Shaw died known as Shaw Corners-will become a national shrine.
But even after death his estate will grow. His plays are copyrighted until the year 2,000-50 years after his death—and all royalties will go to the estate.
Only two nurses, one of whom nursed his wife on her deathbed in 1843, were at Shaw's bedside when he died.
Minutes later, Shaw's housekeeper, Mrs. Alice Laden, walked down the long drive to the road before Shaw's house and somberly told newsman waiting at the gate: "MMS
"Mr. Shaw is dead."
Oklahoma Game Tickets Sold Out
A sellout of reserved seats for the K.U.-O.U. football game Saturday Nov. 11 was announced today by E. L. Falkenstien, business manager of athletics.
About 2,000 bleacher seats will go on sale Friday. The bleachers are built in the south and of the stadium under the scoreboard.
"It will be necessary to substitute bleacher seats for many reserved seat orders received this morning." Mr. Falkenstien said. The reserved seats sold total about 38,000.
This will be the second time there has been a sellout game this season.
Nominations for freshman class officers and all A.S.C. representatives will be accepted through Friday by Mareia Horn, A.S.C. secretary. Miss Horn may be reached by calling 731
The petition has to be signed by 700 voters.
Frosh Nominations Still Accepted
All students interested in working at the polls in the freshman election, should sign up at the hostess desk in the Union by Saturday noon.
Pep Rally Tonight At Union Building
A pep rally will be held on the roof-garden of the Union building at 7:15 this evening for the Jayhawker football team which will leave Lawrence Friday morning for Salt Lake City.
The team plans to leave Lawrence at 8 o'clock Friday morning for Topeka.
US Troops Escape Trap
Tokyo, Nov. 2—(U.P.)-Two of three American battalions encircled by the Communists fought their way to safety today and rejoined United Nations armies battling desperately to restore the collapsing northwest front in Korea.
Rampaging Chinese and North Korean troops still held the third battalion in an iron ring near Unsan, 55 miles from the Manchurian border. A rescue column was six miles away.
All three battalions—totalling up to 3,000 troops of the 1st Cavalry division—were trapped early today in a powerful enemy armored attack down both sides of Unsan in a bid to cut the allied line in two.
The massed enemy tanks, self-propelled guns, mounted troops and infantry punched at least four holes in the allied defenses and sent the 1st Cavalry and South Korean 1st, 7th and 8th divisions reeling back to new positions.
Speech Prize Is Gold Cup
Do you have a problem? A campus problem, that is? If you have, and it is a big enough campus problem, you may win a gold cup for the telling of it.
The 26th annual campus problem speaking contest, sponsored by the department of speech and drama, will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9 in Fraser theater.
Speech Prof. E. C. Buehler said the speeches should be from five to eight minutes in length, and may deal with any campus problem.
Before the final contest there will be two eliminating tryouts to choose the ten best speakers from those who have entered the contest.
Any undergraduate student interested in the contest should contact either Mr. Conboy or Prof. Buehler in room 5, Green hall this week.
Korean Speaker Tells Problem Of US There
Many years of feudalistic rule and the effects of two oriental religions have made it hard for the people of Korea to grasp the philosophy of democracy, Mrs. Induk Pahk, Korean lecturer, said Wednesday.
"The people of Korea spent too much of their history under feudalism and this has made them used to its injustices," she said.
"Under Confucianism, women had no rights, and it was not until after World War II that they did have. Buddhism gave to the people a great feeling of complacency. These factors stunted Korea's economic, intellectual and nationalistic growth."
Korea is a middle-road country, and aside from the threat of military domination, the country has gained much from this situation, Mrs. Pahk said. By taking parts of the adjoining countries language, temperament, and culture they have made themselves "perfect."
One of the illustrations given was that of chopsticks. The Chinese, she said, use long, blunt ones while the chopsticks of the Japanese are short and sharp. By combining the two, Korea has come out with the best type.
Pertaining to today's crisis, Mrs. Pahk said that Russia has long known of Korea's strategic position. The country that holds the Pacific holds world power. They have been trying to get Korea since the time of the Czars.
"Russia wants the seaports of Korea. The ports of the peninsula are ice-free 12 months of the year and this would be invaluable to the Soviet Union." Mrs. Pahk said. "In addition to seaports, Korea has many undeveloped mines of coal, gold, and minerals."
She considers the biggest job in Korea to be the education of the people. The people in the northern part of the country have been greatly influenced by five years of constant propaganda. This type of education must be offset, she said.
The KFKU players elected officers Wednesday. They are: Richard Shelldon, College freshman, president; Richard Hunter, journalism junior, vice-president; Kay Peters, fine arts junior, secretary; Tom Welsh, College junior, treasurer; Shirley Tinsley, College freshman, publicity chairman.
KFKU Players Elect Officers At Meeting Wednesday
Students who purchased books at the Student Union bookstore, during the fiscal period seven from Jan. 1 to June 1, have claimed $12,900 of the 20 thousand dollar rebate that was declared for that period.
$7,100 In Rebates Still Unclaimed
Mr. L. E. Woolley, manager of the bookstore, said students who purchased during period seven may still collect the remaining $7,100 upon presentation of their rebate tickets at the bookstore.
Ise To Speak To Presidents
John Ise, professor of economics,
will address approximately 150 faculty members and organizational presidents at this year's first presidents' breakfast, sponsored by Student Union Activities.
Alberta James, program chairman, said Dr. Ise will speak on "Our American Education and the World Crisis."
The breakfast will be held at 9 am. Saturday in the Union ballroom. After breakfast Professor Ise will speak and a discussion period will follow. Win Koerper, College junior, will be master of ceremonies. Miss James said the S.U.A. plans to sponsor a president's breakfast
Miss James said the S.U.A. plan to sponsor a presidents' breakfast at least once a month.
Grad Enrolls In Institute
Walter L. Miller, who graduated from the University School of Business in 1949 with a bachelor of science degree and a major in personnel management has enrolled in the American Institute for Foreign Trade at Thunderbird Field, Phoenix, Arizona.
Specializing in Brazilian trade Miller is taking the school's intensive training course to prepare for a career in American business or government abroad.
The course at the Institute concentrates techniques of international business, administration, foreign and overseas, and characteristics of foreign countries.
After leaving the University, he was an accountant and office manager in the Escondido Women's association, Escondido, Calif. He was a lieutenant in the air force during the war and served overseas 13 months in the Pacific.
450 Enjoy Satirical Comedy
By ELLSWORTH ZAHM
Sparkling with satirical humor, which was thoroughly appreciated by the audience, "The Mad Woman of Chaillot" opened Wednesday night in Fraser theater.
Approximately 450 persons attended the opening night performance of the two-act comedy by Jean Giraudoux. The play was the 118th production of the department of speech and drama.
Especially noteworthy were the scenes in which the Countess explains to the would-be-suicide, Pierre, (Wayne Helgeson) the joys of this life; and the scene in which she
Mrs. Jessica Crafton with her portrayal of the Countess Aurelia, the madwoman of Chaillot, (pronounced shy-O) completely captured the imagination of her audience from the moment of her appearance and held it until the final curtain.
Conspiring with the humble people who gather at the Cafe Chez Francis every day, the mad Countess bails a trap for the greedy materialists who want to tear up Paris in a search for oil.
The plot of the play concerned the efforts of the mad, shrewd Countess Aurelia to destroy people worshiping money and thus to restore happiness to the world.
Giving an "Alice-in-Wonderland" aspect to the tea-party scene in the second act, which was one of the best in the play, were Katie Coad as the naive Mlle. Gabrielle, the madwoman of St. Sulplice; and Frances Fiest as the sophisticated Mme. Josephine, the madwoman of La Concorde.
mute; and Heywood Davis, the Street-singer, enlivened the first act.
Assassins' Try Starts Search For Conspirators
An excellent supporting cast presented some wonderful characterizations. Dan Palmquist, as the loquacious Rag-picker, gave to the trial scene in the second act a special note of humor. Stanley Gottlieb, as the prospector who could locate oil deposits by merely tasting the tap water, and finally decided that the city of Paris was covering a lake of petroleum. Allen Crafton portrayed the part of the sewer-man who told the Madwoman the secrets of the Paris sewers.
points out the way of destruction to the greedy people of Paris.
Richard Hunter, as the duck Dr. Jadin; Ronald Sundeby, as the Deaf-
President Truman himself showed no apparent concern by the unsuccessful attempt of two Puerto Rican revolutionary nationalists to kill him Wednesday in his Blair House residence.
Washington, Nov. 2 (U.P.)—An abortive attempt to assassinate President Truman, hatched in Puerto Rico and smashed by blazing guns of White House guards, sent police of two countries today on a hunt and round-up of all possible conspirators.
He went about his business as usual, taking a morning stroll through downtown Washington and scheduling a full list of visitors at the White House.
That "ideal" resulted in the death of one Puerto Rican who tried to kill the President, the wounding of her husband, the death of a White House guard and the wounding of two others.
But in San Juan, Puerto Rico, police and national guards arrested Nationalist party president Pedro Albizu Campos, the alleged director of the recent island revolt and boss of the two men who tried to kill the president.
Seized also were some 30 other Nationists and Communists, including Ruth Reynolds, a veteran Nationalist party member from the United States.
In New York, police seeped through the city's 300,000 Puerto Rican residents searching for tips on other possible consignirs.
Also held there was Mrs. Rose Collazo—wife of Oscar Collazo, 37-year-old Puerto Rican who lies in Emergency hospital here with wounds suffered in the gun battle with Mr. Truman's guards.
The University Table Tennis association will play a match with the Kansas City, Kan., Y.M.C.A. team at 7:30 tonight in the recreation room of the Union.
She said that she, her husband and others were "fighting for an ideal."
Arraigned on a conspiracy charge and held in $50,000 bail, Mrs. Collazo said defiantly: "I am not surprised and I am not sorry."
Dead from the blazing battle outside Blair House in Wednesday's warm November afternoon were Griselio Torresola of New York City and Pvt. Leslie Coffelt of the White House detail—who even as he fell mortally wounded, put a bullet into Torresola's head.
KU' Table Tennis Team To Play Match Tonight
The K.U. team will be composed of Frank Bayless, business senior; Jack Snell, College senior, and Jay Nixon, fine arts senior. Fletcher Abbey, College senior, will be an alternate.
Bill Guilfoil, 1950 Kansas state table tennis champion, is one of the members of the Kansas City team.
Workers Needed At Polls Saturday
All students interested in working at the voting polls during the freshmen elections on Nov. 8 may do so by signing a list at the hostess' desk in the Union building. Students must enter their names before Saturday noon.
Students may work during their free hours. A schedule is now being made out to fit the convenience of the workers.