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Chinese, Korean Reds Start Counterattack
Tokyo, Nov. 1—(U.P.)—A fierce counterattack by Chinese and Korean Communists stalled the Allied advance in northwest Korea today as American troops in another sector thrust within artillery range of Red China.
Up to 10,000 Reds, including 1,000 on horseback, hurled the South Korean 8th division back four miles below Usn. The attack threatened
the right flank of the U.S. 24th division troops racing up the northwest coast toward the Red refugee capital at Sinuiju.
The flank of the Communist force also was exposed, and one 24th division unit drove a mile-deep wedge into Red positions at Paegu, about 45 miles east of Siniuu.
Another 24th division task force driving almost unopposed up the coastal highway, today reached Chonko, 14 miles from Red Manchuria and 16 miles from the temporary Communist capital on the Manchurian border.
The Reds on the ground were supported by new strength in the air including the first Russian-made jet planes used in the Korean war.
Six Soviet-built jets jumped six U.S. Mustang fighters in a wild dog-fight in which none of the 12 planes was seriously damaged. In other air skirmishes, Allied planes destroyed eight Russian-made, propeller-driven Yak fighters. One American plane was lost.
It was the first time in months the Communist air force, hard hit in the early days of the war, had emerged in any strength.
Red Korea's high command, acknowledging Chinese intervention for the first time, announced today that Chinese Communist forces are grouping to defend the giant Japanese-built power plants on the Korean side of the Yalu river border between Korea and Manchuria.
The broadcast implied that the Chinese were staying on their own side of the river, but battlefield intelligence indicated that at least two Chinese divisions are operating on Korean soil.
A spokesman for the U.S. 10th corps said the 19th Chinese division is operating with the Korean Communists in the northwestern counterattack. The two regiments of a second division have been identified northwest of Hamhung on the east coast.
Oil Geologist Will Lecture
Lewis G. Weeks, chief research geologist of Standard Oil company, will speak at the next University lecture at 8 a.m. Friday in Lindley hall.
His topic will be "Sedimentary Basin Development," a subject of particular interest to oil geologists interested in the fundamental as and to persons who are primarily pects of the earth's structure.
The talk will include the broad structural features of the earth's crust and the relationship of basins of deposition to the occurrence of oil.
Mr. Weeks received his training in geology at the University of Wisconsin and Cornell university. Prior to 1924, he was associated with mining companies in Arizona and New Mexico. He served as a geologist in India from 1920 to 1924, was associated with the Standard Oil company of New Jersey and subsidiaries in many of the countries in South America from 1924 to 1938, and since that time has been chief research geologist.
He has made world-wide analytical studies of basin development, sedimentation, and the environments in the basin of deposition, which appear to control the occurrence o oil.
George B.Shaw Is Near Death
Ayot St. Lawrence, England, Nov. I—(U.P)—George Barnard Shaw, 941, one of the greatest living playwrights, yielded gradually today in what seemed to be a losing fight against death.
The bearded patriarch of the intellectual world fell into a coma, and his almost exhausted store of strength ebbed. His breathing was labored.
"I'm afraid his death is only a matter of hours," his faithful housekeeper, Mrs. Alice Ladden, said. "He seems beyond medical aid."
The decline of one of the literary giants of his generation began Sept. 10. He fell while puttering about in the hedge here, and his thigh was broken.
An operation was performed, and for a time it seemed that the acid-tongued old Irishman had bested another enemy in the rough and tumble way of fighting he liked best.
But the stress of the operation and hospitalization, plus the reappearance of an old kidney aliment proved too much for Shaw. Since his return from the hospital he had been confined to his bed or wheel chair.
In late years Shaw had expressed repeatedly the hope that he would live to be 80, but by Tuesday it be-required that his wish was not to be realized.
The Virginia-born Viscountess Astor, long a friend, was the only visitor permitted to see him Tuesday. She said later that he could not be expected to linger long.
"Nobody who loves him would want it to be any other way," she said. "He recognized me immediately, and smiled as I stroked his head. But he didn't say anything except I'm tired. I want to sleep."
Lady Astor said Shaw "doesn't want any doctors around. There is nothing they can do for him now."
Bill Vaughn, author of the Kansas City Star column, "Starbeams" will speak to the Business School association coffee forum at 7:45 tonight in the Hawk's Nest of the Union.
'Starbeams' Author To Speak At Forum
Mr. Vaughn, a native of St. Louis, was graduated from Washington university there and has spent 15 years in the newspaper business. He was city editor of the Springfield (Mo.) Leader-Press before joining the Star in 1939.
He has written the "Starbeams" column since 1945, and writes an occasional magazine article. He was represented twice in the new Louis Untermeyer collection, "Best Humor of 1949-50."
UN Approves Lie 46 to 5
Anyone may attend the forum.
Flushing, N. Y., Nov. 1—(U.P.) The United Nations general assembly voted overwhelmingly today to continue Trygve Lie's term as secretary-general for three more years, as demanded by the United States. The vote was 46 to 5 with 7 abstentions.
NROTC Posts Appointment Of Cadet Officers
Capt. W. R. Terrell, professor of naval science and tactics, has announced the appointment of the following N.R.O.T.C. cadet officers and non-commissioned officers for the 1950-51 school year;
Battalion staff: Cadet Comdr. James I. McArthur, battalion commander; Cadet Lt. Comdr. Richard J. Rogers, executive officer; Cadet Lt. Leonard M. Shinn, personnel officer; Cadet Lt. Charles E. Rice, operations officer; Cadet Lt. (jg) John M. Wagy, communications officer; Cadet Ens. Herman G. Speckman, supply officer; Cadet C.P.O.Frederick H. Whittemore, battalion chief petty vf officer.
Company "A" officers and noncommissioned officers are: Cadet Lt. Paul L. Skolaut, company commander; Cadet Lt. (jg) Charles E. Sloan, executive officer; Cadet C.P.O. Robert V. Bowersock, company chief pvtv officer.
First platoon, company "A": Cadet Lt. (jg) Jack E. Dausman, platoon commander; P.O. 1st class Robert R. Dunwell; P.O. 2nd class Stanley C. Sager; P.O.'s 3rd class Norman D. Luallin, James H. Martin, Eddie R. Maag, Dwight J. Laughlin.
Second platoon, company "A": Cadet Ens. John P. Howard, platoon commander; Cadet P.O. 1st class Terryl W. Francis; Cadet P.O. 2nd class William E. Thrutchley; P.O.'s 3rd class James P. Gillett, Thomas W. Oliver, Robert B. Newton, Sidney J. Teaford.
Company "B" officers and noncommissioned officers are: Cadet Lt. Harold J. Keeling, company commander; Cadet Lt. (jg) Robert W. Foster, executive officer; Cadet C.P.O. Clifford R. Holland, company chief petty officer.
First platoon, company "B": CadT.
Lt. (jg) Wright W. Crumett,
platoon commander; Cadet P.O. 1st
class John R. Prager; Cadet P.O.
2nd class G. Nelson; P.O.'s 3rd
class George W. Swift, Winton A.
Winter, Leon C. Stromire, Glen T.
Beauchamp.
Second platoon, company "B": Cadet Ens. Hry F. Spuehler, platoon commander; Cadet P.O.1st class Ludwig J. Lenz; Cadet P.O.2nd class Harold H. Heinrich; P.O.'s3rd class Duane E. Dunwoodie, Charles W. King, George A. Youngstrom, Frank L. Lindemuth.
The battalion color guard has the following four non- commissioned officers: Cadet C.P.O. Russell L. Boggs, color bearer; Cadet C.P.O. J. Victor Nally, battalion flag bearer; Cadet P.O. 1st class Lyle E. Deniston, color escort; Cadet P.O. 1st class Ross C. Keeling, battalion flag escort.
Frankie Masters To Play For Ball
Frankie Masters and his band have been engaged to play for the all-military science ball to be held Friday, Dec. 1.
Plans for the military ball are tentative army, air and navy R.O.T.C. spokesman said, but Masters has agreed to play and plans have been made to select a queen of the ball. All women's organized and independent houses will be asked to nominate queen candidates, and the queen and her attendants will be chosen from the candidates.
Committees from the three services will be set up Wednesday to finish the arrangements, and more details will be released later.
Reds Support Profits Backus Tells 'Crises'
Communist practice does not always square with Communist theory, Dr. Oswald P. Backus, assistant professor of history, said at the seventh "World In Crisis" lecture Tuesday night.
Hawaii Club Fills Offices
An election of officers and a discussion of plans for future events were held in the second meeting of Hui O Hawaiiana, club of Hawaiiana, Tuesday.
The club discussed tentative plans for a Hekka dinner to be held the latter part of November and a Luau to be held in the spring.
The officers are: Samuel R. Caldwell, business junior, president; George B. Fraser, engineering junior, vice president; Michiko Yamasaki, engineering junior, secretary; Robert M. Houvener, engineering senior, treasurer.
The Luau is a Hawaiian feast which features such Hawaiian dishes as lomi lomi salmon, poi, haupia, various kinds of dried fish and other native foods.
The aim of the club is to promote interest in Hawaii among the students of the University, to promote Hawaii as the 49th state, and to make the people of Kansas conscious of Hawaii.
The name Hui O Hawaiiana, which means club of Hawaiiiana, was adopted because the membership consists of persons interested in Hawaii as well as those who live in Hawaii. Of approximately 15 members, 13 are Hawaiians.
The next meeting of the club will be Tuesday, November 14. The time and place of the meeting will be announced in the official bulletin.
ISA To Award Scholarship
Application blanks for the $50 Independent Students association scholarship may be obtained in the office of the dean of women, 220 Strong hall, or in the I.S.A. office in the Union. They must be returned to the office of the dean of women by Friday, Nov. 17.
Winner of the scholarship will be chosen from five finalists who will be selected and interviewed by a scholarship committee composed of Miss Margaret Habein, chairman of the committee on aids and awards, other faculty members, and students.
To be eligible, students must show a definite need. Membership in I.S.A. is not necessary but it will be taken into consideration. The students must have completed adequate courses must have taken an active part in campus affairs. Freshmen are preferred but the award has been given to upper classmen.
Miss Habein And Dean Carr
To Attend Wichita Meetings
No Student Recital This Week
Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women, will discuss women's activities on the campus and the freshman dormitory system before a luncheon meeting of the Wichita K.U. Alumni association Friday.
The Alumni meeting is sponsored in connection with the State Teachers meeting being held at that time. T. DeWitt Carr, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, is also on the program.
**Wednesday** **kendall this Week**
Them will no Fine Arts students recital Thursday afternoon.
Dean Thomas Gorton has an-ounced.
- "Many of the criticisms which Marx leveled against capitalism are accepted by Communist theoreticians, yet many of Marx's targets remain in practice in the Soviet Union today.
"Profits have received emphatic support from the government which is eager to reinvest profits, especially in heavy industry, with an eye to the future." Dr. Backus said.
Much money is needed to support the party hierarchy, and that on the other hand the short-range needs of the people have received only intermittent attention, especially in the years 1936-37 and 1948-49, he said.
"Technological dependence which Marx considered serious has become an important factor in the Soviet Union. There is an extreme reluctance to discard machinery until it is worn out," he continued. "That reluctance results from the shortage of factories to produce machines and the great desire of Russia to increase production."
Changes in design of machinery and production are unlikely to be tried by plant managers who will be judged on production, rather than on utility," Dr. Backus said.
"The problem of exploitation of the worker continues to beset the Soviet Union. There are trends which serve to destroy the workers' physique and nerves," he declared. Discussing the practice of Communism outside of Russia, Backus pointed out that the Soviet Union tends toward economic exploitation in these countries.
"The Soviet Union has negotiated trade treaties which insure the right of the Soviet government to buy low inside the satellite states and to sell high."
Dr. Backus described the conditions which he believes will lead to Communism.
"I believe that such chances exist in those areas where the Communist vision of the future, or even Soviet practice, seems better than existing conditions; in those areas where the common man feels himself a social outcast; in those areas where industrial and agricultural production are low; in those areas where starvation is rife; and in those areas where Soviet power can make itself felt most easily."
GOP, Democrats To Hold Debate
A debate between the K.U. Young Republicans and Young Democrats will be held in the Little theatre of Green hall at 7:30 p.m. today.
Keith Wilson, third year law; and Richard Harris, third year law; will be the Republican speakers. Robert Brock, third year law; and James Logan, business junior, will represent the campus Democrats.
The debate is sponsored by the Y.M.C.A. and is the first of a series of town hall meetings planned by that organization.
Graduate Club Dance To Be Nov. 13 At Tepee
The Graduate club will hold an informal dance Monday, Nov. 13, at the Tepee.
Mariman Mehta, chairman of the steering committee, said that any graduate student who plans to attend the dance should contact the Y.W.C.A. secretary before Friday. Members will meet at the Union at 7:30 p.m. before going to the dance.
The possibility of setting up a more formal organization for the club was also discussed.