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Chinese Reds Fire On US Search Planes
Tokyo, Oct. 24 — (U.P.)—Chinese Communist anti-aircraft guns fired today on two U.S. marine fighter planes searching the Manchurian border area of North Korea for trace of hundreds of missing American war prisoners.
They said the anti-aircraft fire followed them as they turned for their home base at Wonsan on the east coast and continued until they were at least five miles from the frontier.
Manjopin lies only 20 miles north-west of the North Korean mountain stronghold of Kanggye, where the Korean Reds may make their last stand.
The fire was heavy and "too accurate for comfort," they said. They thought the guns were radar-controlled.
South Korean Republican troops spearheading the Allied cleanup of North Korea rapidly were approaching Kanggye from the south on a hot tip that American war prisoners were in the hands of fleeing Communist troops just ahead of them.
them. The South Korean 6th Division was well above Huichon, 57 miles south of Kanggye and 82 miles north of Liaoyang Communist capital
the captain of the fleet. The were advancing almost parallel with the Manchurian border, 45 miles to the northwest.
American advisers with the South Koreans said they had found evidence that the Communists recently had used Huichon as an assembly point for american prisoners. They believed that the Reds may have pulled out of Huichon with the missing prisoners just ahead of the South Koreans.
The North Koreans were retreating so fast above Huichon that they abandoned intact 23 Soviet-made tanks and 50 boxcars loaded with ammunition. It was the largest booty yet captured by an Allied unit in a single day.
single day.
American tanks were rushing north to join the final sweep up the coastal highway to the border town of Sinuiju, believed the new provisional North Korean capital.
On the other side of Korea, the South Korean Capitol Division was advancing up the northeast coast on foot almost as fast as the late Gen. George S. Patton's forces moved through France in tanks.
New Corn Disease Sweeps Campus
A strange and wonderful disease has been loosed on the campus. Going under the name of "Hawkusmitus" it is attacking only ears of corn so far but there is speculation that it might be fatal to cornhuskers, especially those from Nebraska.
All over the campus sadly battered ears of corn are appearing with the attached inscription, "This corn ravished by Hawkusmitus".
We are reminded of the old expression that "there is more than one way to skin a cat," perhaps this "Hawkusmitus" is just another way to skin a Nebraska Cornhusker.
Anyway we'll find out Saturday afternoon when the Jayhawkers meet the Cornhuskers here in one of the most important grid contests of the season.
Public Relations Contest Planned
An annual public relations contest will be sponsored by the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information for the Inland Daily Press association, it was announced Monday in Chicago at the annual fall meeting of the Association.
Material eligible for entry in the contest will consist of advertising, news and editorial matter published by member newspapers in an effort to develop better public understanding of the importance of newspapers and the services they perform or the importance of freedom of the press and public information.
Dean Burton W. Marvin announced the terms of the contest Monday at a luncheon of Inland, which is made up of several hundred daily newspapers in 20 Middle Western states.
Entries will be taken in five classes: newspapers with circulation up to 5,000, those with 5,000 to 10,000, newspapers with 10,000 to 25,000, those with 25,000 to 75,000 and those above 75,000. Entries in the first annual contest, winners of which will be announced at the May, 1951, Inland meeting, must have been published in 1950. The deadline for receipt of entries is February 15, 1951. Judges will be non-members of Inland and non-members of the Journalism faculty.
First, second and third-place certificates will be awarded in each class.
Battle Over 'Ways Of Life,' Kerensky Says
Today's international crisis would be simpler if it were the same "old fashioned struggle between two states," but the battle is between two irreconcilable ways of life, Alexander Kerensky, former prime minister of Russia, told students and faculty members Monday.
Speaking to a capacity audience in Fraser theater at a special convocation the grey haired, leathery faced Russian exile stalked around the stage and pounded the speaker's stand. His voice frequently rose to a crescendo and fell to a dramatic whisper as he described the lack of understanding by leaders of the present crisis.
"No peace is possible while the Kremlin is in power," he said. "The Communists must keep moving; if they stop, they die."
People under the Communist yoke will fight for freedom, Mr. Kerensky said, but they are afraid their only chance lies in a third world war. The only way to avoid such a war, he said, is to help anti-Communist underground movements.
"Not for one day does the Communist government have any conception of the people's wishes," he said. "If you knew, as I know, how the new generation in Russia has remained faithful to the idea of democratic freedom and decent life. There are 100 times more fanatic Communists in Italy and France than in Russia and Poland."
America must proclaim to the United Nations the abyss between subjugated peoples and dictatorial governments, Mr. Kerensky said. He advised us not to be timid in our propaganda.
He disagreed with Winston Churchill's recent statement that our only hope is super-rearmament of Europe, resulting in a peace of mutual terror. "I am an optimist," he said, "because in reality all of Russia's tremendous machinery for world aggression and terror is based on the disunity between the Communist machinery and the people."
Even leaders in world affairs do not understand the real essence of the present world class conflict, Mr. Kerensky said. Some try to explain it as a struggle between two powerful nations for world domination.
"The present crisis is the result of more profound and tragic courses," he said. "It is based on the decline of general European culture,
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belief in freedom, and belief in the autonomy of man."
He traced the development of totalitarianism; the Communist government in Russia in 1920; Mussolini's rise to power in Italy in 1922; the German-Italian putsch of 1923; and Hitler's appointment as chancellor of Germany in 1933.
"Under Communism, the proletariat is a chosen class which will destroy by violence the 'declining and dying capitalistic nations.' As a result, Mr. Kerensky said, "The international organization is strong outside, but much weaker inside Russia."
He quoted Stalin to show the Communist belief that their "social revolution" must affect not a single nation but all civilized countries. They also believe, Mr. Kerensky said, that there can be no compromise between Communism and capitalism. Stalin in 1934 described Fascism as "only the last period of declining capitalism."
Serious consequences would follow the death of Stalin, Mr. Kerensky said. He explained that "No one could replace Stalin."
WEATHER
Continued above-normal temperatures the rest of the week were forecast today for Kansas.
With true or no precipitation anticipated, Sunflower state weather is due to produce temperatures 5 to 8 degrees over the seasonal average through Sunday in southwestern counties and 3 to 5 degrees elsewhere.
Truman Calls For Disarming In UN Speech
Flushing, N. Y., Oct. 24—(U.P.) President Truman today called for a " fool-proof," world-wide disarmament pact to head off a third world war.
But he warned that the United States and her Western allies will not be bulled into laying down their arms by "paper promises" of peace and disarmament.
"One-sided disarmament is a sure invitation to aggression," he said.
The President spoke before a special plenary session of the United Nations General Assembly on the fifth anniversary of the founding of the U.N.
With representatives of the Soviet Union and the satellite Communist states in his audience, President Truman carefully avoided naming Russia as the cause of the world's war-jitters. But he left no doubt in the minds of his listeners that he regards international Communism as the chief threat to peace.
The President accompanied his plea for disarmament with a blunt reminder that, until it is achieved, the democracies have no choice but to continue rearming.
"Disarmament is the course which the United States would prefer to take," he said.
"But until an effective system of disarmament is established . . . the only course the peace loving nations can take in the present situation is to create the armaments needed to make the world secure against aggression."
President Truman envisaged, in the wake of a "real disarmament," a sort of world-wide Marshall plan in which all nations "could join in a greatly enlarged program of mutual aid."
"As the cost of maintaining armaments decreased, every nation could greatly increase its contributions to advancing human welfare," he said. "All of us could then pool even greater resources to support the United Nations in its war against want."
In that way, he said, money now being spent on arms could be used for food, medicine and the tools needed to develop backward areas.
The President underlined lessons to be gained from the action of the U. N., led by the United States, in the Korean war, and deplored the failure of East and West to cooperate since the end of World War II.
Nineteen Teammates To Return Saturday For Homecoming
DREAM TEAM OF 1920
Nineteen members, two coaches and a cheerleader of the 1920 dream football team have notified Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary, of their intentions of attending the homecoming festivities today and Saturday.
Former players who will be here are: Ellis J. Allison, Salina; Clifford K. Arthur, Junction City; Harvey E. Bross, Manhattan; Orlis Cox, Ottawa; William Davison, St. John; Earl Endacott, Abilene; Perry Godlove, Clay Center; Harley C. Little, Overland Park; Arthur C. "Dutch" Lonborg, Lawrence; Frank P. "Mandy" Mandeville, Kansas City, Mo.; Andrew J. McDonald, Springfield, Mo.; Dr. Bruce P. Meeker, Wichita; George E. Nettels, Pittsburg; Edwin A. Sandefur, Lawrence; John Irving Stelzer, Platte City, Mo.; Mahlon Weed, Kansas City, Kan; Kenneth Welch, Emporia; C. O. Prexy" Wilson, Greeley, Colo.; and Warren V. Woody, Wilmette, III.
Forty members of the team are still living and others may arrive for the game.