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University Daily Kansan
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Lawrence. Kansas
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Four Students Candidates For Rhodes Scholar
Four University students were selected as candidates for Rhodes scholarships. Oct. 26 by the University nominating committee.
The annual value of the scholarship is 400 pounds, approximately $1,000, with a present supplement of 100 pounds. 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.
The district committee for this area is composed of six states: Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas. It meets in December to select four candidates from the 12 sent in by the member states, and these four receive the scholarships.
The candidates will undergo a selective process before the 32 winners from the United States are named. They are first nominated by a committee at the various schools. Then applicants from the state are considered by a state committee which selects two men to send to the district committee.
The students nominated are: John Vignery, College senior majoring in history; Clinton Foulk, College senior majoring in astronomy; John Eberhardt, graduate student; and Wilson O'Connell, College senior majoring in speech and drama. Vignery and Foulks are Summerfield scholars.
Cecil Rhodes, British statesman who endowed the schoolships, 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.
A Rhodes scholar has been elected from K.U. for each of the past three years. In 1948 two students were selected from Kansas.
Reds Topic For World In Crisis
"Theory and Practice of Communism Within and Without the Soviet Union" is the topic of the seventh "World In Crisis" lecture to be given by Dr. Oswald Backus at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Swedes Hail New Sovereign
Coming to the University this fall, Dr. Backus is an assistant professor of history. He was graduated from Rutgers University, received his B.A. at Yale university, M.A. at Columbia university, and his PhD. at Yale university. He was in the service from 1943 to 1946.
Stockholm, Sweden. Oct. 30—(U.P)
—Prince Gustav Adolph, 68, sword today to be "straightforward, merciful, law-biding, righteous and mild in my reign," and was proclaimed King Gustav VI of the Swedes, Goths and Wendes.
A great cheer spit the air in the state hall of the royal castle when the new king finished his oath. Hundreds of thousands of his subjects outside the castle and along the streets took up the cry.
The joyous shouts almost drowned out the church bells which tolled in mourning for beloved Gustav V, who died early Sunday after 43 years of reign.
The quiet death of the 92-year old monarch saddened the whole country. Although Gustav V specifically requested that work go on as usual upon his death, flags were flown at half-staff and photographs of the ruler were draped in mourning wreath.
The swearing in of his eldest son was a solemn ceremony. Queen Louise, the new king's wife, arrived at the state hall a few minutes early and awaited the rest of the royal family.
Then came the king, his son Prince Bertil, his brother Prince Vilhelm and the baby crown Prince Carl Gustav.
In a clear, steady voice, the new king repeated after Premier Tage
"The Madwoman of Chaillot" with a cast of 36 will be given in Fraser theater at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. A French play, by Jean Giraudoux, "The Madwoman of Chaillot" is the University's first major dramatic production of the year.
French Comedy In Fraser Is First Major Play
The cast also includes: Richard Hunter, journalism junior; Margaret Gosney, '46; Mary Lou Lane, education senior; Lynn Osborn, Tom Welsh, Nancy Lindsey, Heywood Davis, and Katy Coad, College juniors; Stanley Gottlieb, William Van Almen, Ronald Sundbye, James Clausen, William West, William Means, and Robert Bethany, College sophomores.
In the lead role is Mrs. Jessica Crafton, who has been associated with the University of Kansas theater since the reorganization of the department of speech and drama in 1923.
Other faculty members of the speech and drama department appearing in the production are Prof. Allen Crafton, Mrs. Frances Feist, Donald Dixon, Harold Harvey, Dan Palmquist, and Gene Courtney,
The settings and costumes for the production have been designed by
Wayne Helgeson, fine-arts sophomore; Marcia Gore, Jerry Knudson, James McKone, and Dennis Henderson, College freshmen; Richard Gamble, engineering freshman; and Jack Randle, freshman in medicine.
A French play, it was adapted into English by Maurice Valency and presented in New York unheralded and with a starless cast. Ignoring these handicaps the play went on to captivate the critics and keep theater patrons standing in line at the box-office.
Students may obtain reserved seat tickets with their activity cards at the ticket office in the basement of Green hall. University faculty and staff members may buy a single season ticket for $2.01 and a second ticket for $2.09. Season tickets will entitle the holder to a reserved seat at all four productions during the year. Tickets for individual performances may be purchased for $1.00, including tax.
K. U. will be the first school to present "The Madwoman of Chailot," which has just been released for outside production by its author Jean Giraudoux.
Dr. John Maxon, assistant professor of Art History, and director of the Museum of Art.
Two Students Killed Sunday When Their Car Hits Truck
Directing the play is Mrs. Feist, who also appears in the cast.
Applications Due For Fulbright
Registration for the proficiency examinations in English composition will be held Monday, Oct. 30, Tuesday, Oct. 31, and Wednesday, Nov. 1.
No student will be admitted to the examinations at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 4, without a registration card.
Applications for the Fulbright scholarships must be turned in to Dr. J. A. Burzle, chairman of the campus Fulbright scholarship committee by 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, in 304 Fraser. This is the deadline for applications.
Juniors and seniors who expect to graduate from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will register in 229 Strong hall; William Allen School of Journalism and Public Information, 106 Journalism building; and School of Education, 103 Fraser hall.
Must Sign For English Exam
Students may register from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. each day. They will be assigned rooms where the examination will be given.
Mrs. Natalie Calderwood, instructor in English, will advise any students who have questions about the examination in her office, 313 Fraser hall, from 9 to 11 a.m. Monday, Oct. 9 through Friday, Nov. 3.
Erlander: "I will be straightforward, merciful, law-biding . . ."
The royal princes Bertil and Vilhelm then took their oaths in unison and accompanied the new king to the cabinet in a closed ceremony. The Socialist cabinet resigned and the king asked its members to remain in office. They thanked him and pledged to serve him and the country.
After the brief ceremonies, the king and his queen went to a balcony and waved to the throns. But the aid of sadness remained and many of the thousands wept openly in grief for their departed ruler.
Voice Recital Is Tonight
Irene Peabody, associate professor of voice, will give the third faculty recital at 8 p.m. today in Strong auditorium.
Miss Peabody's program will open with a group of three songs by Purcell, "When I a Love Pale Do See," "When I am Laid in Earth," and "There's Not a Swain on the Plain," and two arrangements by Hughes, "Has Sorrow Thy Young Days Shaded" and "I Know Where I'm Goin."
An aria, "Amour, viens aider," from Saint-Saen's "Samson et Dallia" precedes a final group of songs by American composers. These include "Intreat Me Not to Leave Thee," by Winter Watts, "Moon Marketing," by Powell Weaver, "Wild Geese," by David Gulion, and an excerpt from Menotti's current operatic success "The Consul."
The cycle of songs, "Frauen-Liebe und Leben," which Schumann wrote on the subject of woman's love and life forms the second section of the mezzo-soprano's program.
By ALAN MARSHALL and MARVIN ARTH
Two University students were killed and four other persons, one of them a K.U. student, were injured in two automobile crashes early Sunday morning.
Patrick W. Baker, 19, education sophomore from Minneapolis, Kan., and James Miller, 18, College freshman from Claflin were killed instantly at 3:45 a.m. Sunday when Baker's 1948 Ford sedan crashed into a semi-trailer gasoline transport truck one and one-half miles east of Carneiro on U.S. 40. Carneiro is about 10 miles east of Ellsworth.
Dale W. Geisen, 18, of Minneapolis, Kan., a passenger in the automobile, and Frank N. Walker of Stockton, the truck driver, were injured in the crash.
Geisen suffered a double compound fracture above and below the left knee and a simple fracture of the right arm. Authorities at the Ellsworth hospital said that his pelvic bone may also be broken.
Walker received a broken left leg and serious head cuts.
The three youths had attended a dance in Claflin and it is believed that they were returning to either Lawrence or Minneapolis.
Walker told the Highway patrol that his own speed was about 30 to 35 miles an hour, and that Baker's car was approaching at a high rate of speed but declined to name a specific figure.
The Highway patrol in Salina said that Baker was driving east and was just coming over the crest of a hill when his car hit the truck. Patrolmen said the truck was 2 feet, 7 inches across the center-line. The Baker car was knocked to the east side of a 20-foot culvert.
Sheriff John Svoboda, of Ellsworth county said the truck and car met "head-on in the middle of the road." He said the car "folded like an accordion," and motor was ripped out and thrown 10 feet away.
Miller and Baker were pledges of Phi Kappa fraternity. The entire fraternity and Mrs. E. R. Hooper, housemother, attended a requiem Mass for the two youths at 7 o'clock this morning in St. John the Evangelical church.
Geisen and Baker were teammates on the Minneapolis High school football team two years ago and Baker played end on the freshman football squad at the University this year. Miller took fourth in the mile run at the class "B" state meet last spring, and was a candidate for the K.U cross-country team.
Coach Jules V.-Sikes and Athletic Director Arthur C. Lonborg and members of the coaching staff also attended the Mass, which was said by the Rev. George C. Towle, pastor
of St. John's. Father Towle also led a rosary for the two youths Sunday night at the Phi Kappa house.
Baker's body was taken to Fout's Funeral home in Minneapolis, but funeral arrangements have not been learned. Funeral services for Miller will be held at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in the Immaculate Conception church in Claflin ...
Both students had brothers who formerly attended the University. Robert Joseph Miller was a third year law student when he dropped out in the spring semester of 1950. Jerry Baker had played on the freshman football team with his brother until he quit school to join the marine corps earlier this semester.
A soldier driving from the opposite direction told authorities that Balloun's 1950 Plymouth pulled to the right and struck the culvert.
In another accident at 1 a.m. Sunday, Joseph E. Balloun, business senior from Russell, fell asleep and hit a culvert two miles east of Perry. With him were his brother, Lloyd Balloun, and Morris Grubb, cf Russell. They were both asleep at the time of the accident.
Grubb suffered a fractured jaw and concussion, and had several teeth knocked out. He was taken to Lawrence Memorial hospital. Gene Balloun received a sprained ankle and a split tongue, and is in Watkins hospital. Lloyd Balloun received only minor cuts and bruises and returned to Russell Sunday.
"I was going to stop at Perry and sleep," Gene Balloun said, "but I thought I was awake enough to go on. I wasn't."
The car was towed to the Winter Chevrolet garage, where it was estimated that the damage was between $700 to $1,000. Balloon said that the car was two weeks old and had only 800 miles on it.
Lloyd Balloun and Grubb had been in Lawrence for the Homecoming game. The three were returning to Lawrence from dates in Topeka.
JAMES MILLER
Photo by Hank Brown.
PATRICK W. BAKER