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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1950
World Wide News
Allies Near Manchuria
Korea, Oct. 23—(U.P.)—Allied armies mopping up North Korea in the wake of collapsed Communist resistance pushed within 50 or 60 miles of Manchuria in two sectors today.
Troops moving up the broad Chongchon river valley inland from the west coast advanced beyond Huichon, 82 miles north of Pyongyang and about 50 miles from the border.
The division advanced in two columns beyond Pukchong. One moved along the inland route through Cho and the other along the coastal road toward the Russian frontier.
British troops crossed the Chongchon river at Sinanju, on the west coast highway and railway running to the new Communist capital of Sinujiu, on the Korean side of the Manchurian border.
To the east, the South Korean capital division thrust a spearhead northward of Cho, 55 miles northeast of Hamhung and 62 miles from the Manchurian frontier.
At the same time units of the South Korean 1st division overran a 30-mile reach of the east bank of the Chongchon northeast of Sinanju and crossed the river at Kujang.
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The republicans pushed on 12 miles beyond the Chongchon and entered Yongbyon, 65 miles southeast of the frontier.
east of The South Koreans and Britons were under orders to try to overtake the enemy and save hundreds and possibly thousands of American war prisoners being driven toward Manchuria by the retreating Communists.
More than 26,000 North Korean prisoners were taken in 24 hours. Field reports said the last 56,000 Communist troops were in full flight, with all organized resistance ended.
UN Hears Russian Plan
Lake Success, N.Y., Oct. 23—(U.P.)
-The United Nations today began consideration of a Russian "peace program" which includes approval
US Will Help Tito's Yugoslavia
Officials hoped to scrape together $30 million as the first installment Yugoslavia has asked for $105 million, but experts here believe that is too high.
Washington, Oct. 23—(U.P.) The United States today tried to get a relief food program going for drought-streifen Yugoslavia to bolster Marshal Tito's anti-cominform regime.
Germany was the announced interest of that meeting. But experts cautioned that Yugoslavia's drought undoubtedly was discussed and that Tito may be marked for new pressure.
The search for funds was given high priority in the wake of last week's ominous cominform meeting in Prague.
State and defense officials believe that if food is shipped to Yugoslavia quickly, it might forestall a possible collapse of the Tito regime.
of the notorious "Stockholm peace appeal."
Russian foreign minister Andrei Y. Vishinksky was to present the Kremlin's latest "peace plan" to the U.N.'s main political committee.
At the same time, the general assembly's pressed toward a vote on rival Cuban and British proposals for establishing uniform rules for admitting governments to a seat in the U.N.
The United States and Britain were split on the issue, which was pertinent to the recognition of Communist China.
Glamour In Hollywood Is Not Glamour For Opera
New York, Oct. 23—(U.P.)-Rudolf Bing, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera company, is warning all opera lovers in advance that he thinks glamour is for Hollywood and good vocal chords are all the glamour he asks for on the staid stage of the famed opera house.
With opening night only two weeks away, Mr. Bing got a little nervous over possible misunderstandings of his comment that he wanted to bring "more contemporary ideas" to the Met.
"I'm rather alarmed that some people will come to the opera and expect—well, I don't know what they expect," he said, with a gesture of helplessness. He shuddered when it was suggested that he might have ideas to glamourize the classical opera.
"If, on top of good vocal chords,
the young ladies happen to be beautiful,
he added with a twinkle,
"of course that is all right too."
Maybe it's just by chance, as Mr. Bing insists, but the cast of the opening night opera, Verdi's "Don Carlo," includes one young South American beauty, Delia Rigal; a 25-year-old curvaceous Italian singer in her American debut, Fedora Barbieri; a young Swedish tenor, Jussi Biorjeling; and two handsome young bachelors, Robert Merrill and Jerome Hines.
The costumes for this 16th century tragedy just happens to have been designed by Rolf Gerard, the same man who designed the breathtaking, skin tight costumes for Lilli Palmer last season in the Broadway show, "Caeasar and Cleopatra."
"I have hired people like Mr. Gerard and Margaret Webster to act as stage designers and stage directors," said Mr. Bing, who came here after 15 years of managing the Glyndebourne Opera company in England, "and for the first time I have put the stage designer and stage director on an almost equally important level with the conductor."
But anybody who thinks this influx of Broadway talent means a jazzed up version of Verdi better cash in their opening night tickets.
Two Slide Rule Classes To Begin
The first group will meet at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25 and continue to meet at that hour every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, concluding Nov. 13.
A second section will meet at the same hour Thursday, Oct. 26 and will convene on Tuesdays and Thursdays until Nov. 21.
Two classes of slide rule instruction will begin this week in 206 Marvin hall.
The classes are geared to meet the needs of the engineering students, but students from other schools are invited. No credit will be given.
Students desiring to take the course should sign up in the office of T. DeWitt Carr, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, 111 Marvin before Wednesday, Oct. 25.
Kenneth E. Rose, chairman of the mining and metallurgical engineering departments, has been chosen president of the Kansas-Nebraska section of the American Society for Engineering Education.
ASEE Elects
KU Professsr
Flag At Half-staff To Honor Stimson
The United States flag over the military science building will be flown at half staff until further notice in honor of Henry L. Stimson who died Friday.
Other officers for the coming year are Prof. James K. Ludwickson, University of Nebraska, vice president and program chairman; Prof. Joe Nate Wood, Kansas State college, secretary. Donald Wilson, professor of electrical engineering, was named to a two-year term as Kansas-Nebraska representative to the general council of the A.S.E.E.
Col, Edward R. Kumpe, professor of military science, made the announcement today after receiving orders from Washington.
Stimson was secretary of state under President Hoover and secretary of war under presidents Taft, Roosevelt and Truman.
Jazz Band To Play In Hoch
Norman Granz' Jazz at the Philharmonic will appear in Hoch auditorium at 8:30 p.m. Monday, November 20. This will be the philharmonic's second appearance at the University under the sponsorship of Student Union Activities. The first concert at KU was presented in 1949.
concert Featured this year will be: Coleman Hawkins, Flip Phillips, and Lester Young, all playing tenor saxophone; Bill Harris, trombone; Oscar Peterson, piano soloist; Ella Fitzgerald, vocalist; Ray Brown, bass; Hank Jones, piano; Buddy Rich, drums; and Harry Edison, trumpet.
Democrats Hear Alumnus
Communism isn't a political issue although the Republicans have tried to make it one, Dean Postlethwaita, instructor in political science at Baker university, told the Young Democrats club Thursday.
Mr. Postlethwaite, class of '47, and Frank Canfield, president of the newly organized Young Democrats club at Baker, were guests of the K.U. club.
"Most people have never seen a communist," Post. Posthlethwaite said.
"Even if there are a few capa-
batage. J. Edgar Hoover has
announced that he knows who they
are and can pick them up in case
of trouble.
"There is no chance of them taking over the country through the people."
He said communism in the U.S. is just a "phony issue" that the Republicans are using to cover up the real issues.
Plans were made for a forum on Thursday, Nov. 2. The forum, sponsored by the Y.M.C.A., will present two speakers from the Young Democrats and Young Republican clubs on the campus. Chosen to represent the Young Democrats were Robert Brock, third year law, and Jim Logan, business junior.
"The Democrats have good, healthy political issues that are not phony," Mr. Postlethwaite said. It is possible for the Democrats to win in Kansas, he said.
Students Selected For YMCA Offices
Names of students selected to fill Y.M.C.A. cabinet posts have been issued by Don Hull, Y.M.C.A. president.
The new officers are: Warren Andreas, College senior, executive vice-president; Myron McClenny, College sophomore, secretary; James Kelley, College sophomore, treasurer; Donald Dirke, College sophomore, representative to All-Student Council; Donald Horton, College junior, representative to Student Religious council.
Phil Kassebaum, College sophomore, chairman of campus affairs committee; David Hills, College sophomore, chairman of recreation committee; Irvin Gaston, education junior, chairman of office committee, and Wayne Bradley, College junior, chairman of committee on effective citizenship.
French Reds Unfriendly To US Students Abroad
Many Frenchmen are unfriendly to American visitors, Edwina Schock, College junior, told French club members recently. Miss Schock was one of about 500 Americans that sailed June 20 from Quebec to France under the sponsorship of the Experiment in International Living, and was one of 12 American students who went to Rouen on the Seine river.
Will Present Play Next Week
The 117th production by the University's department of speech and drama will be "The Madwoman of Chailot" by Jean Giraudoux.
The play will be given in Fraser theater from Wednesday, Nov. 1 through Saturday, Nov. 4, said Mrs. Frances Fee, director.
"The Madwoman of Chaillot," a success of last year's New York season, has just been released for production, and the University of Kansas will be the first school to present it.
Giradoux's idea is that the parasites of society are destroying the world. In his play, an addled old woman exterminates a dozen of them single handed.
In this production, Mrs. Allen Crafton, who has been associated with the Kansas theater since the reorganization of the drama department in 1923, will play the Madwoman, assisted by Mrs. Feist, Professor of Drama Allen Crafton, several other members of the drama faculty, and about twenty experienced student actors.
The complete cast for the play will be announced later. Admission will be $1 including tax. Season tickets for all four productions may be purchased for $2.50 in room 5, Green hall, after Friday, Oct. 27.
The students lived in French homes and shared the normal activities and daily routine of the families. They had been told that they wouldn't find much understanding and friendship in Rouen, because the residents felt American planes had needlessly destroyed historic monuments and buildings and the business district of Rouen.
Rouen, an industrial and transportation center northwest of Paris with a population of approximately 125,000 has been called the center of Communist strength in France. Its newspapers referred to the North Korean capture of Seoul as that city's "liberation."
After four weeks in the fear-riden city, the group went on a bicycle tour of Southern France, where they found people more friendly. They slept in sleeping bags while their French companions used barns or strawstacks for shelter. Every American was accompanied by a "brother" or "sister," mostly members of the families they had lived with in Rouen. They bought food and prepared their own meals.
The student visitors, although they paid for their lodging, were frankly told "it is hard for us to have American guests in Rouen; it will go hard with us when the Communists take over."
The bicycle tour ended at Versailles with a farewell dinner. The Americans then spent a week in Paris.
Miss Schock also spent a week in England and another in Switzerland. She flew from Paris to Kansas City, Mo. Sept. 16 and the next day moved into her quarters in Templin hall.
Dr. Ethan P. Allen, director of the Bureau of Government Research, will go to Manhattan Tuesday to judge a citizenship contest conducted by the Kansas Farm bureau. The contest was carried on among the various county farm agencies in Kansas.
Dr. Ethan Allen To Manhattan
Murphy also was setting a style trend toward "rugged clothing" for mustached men, he said.
The nine other "best dressed" men in America in their respective fields included: Phil Rizutto, sports; Guy Lombardo, bandleader; Jack Carson, motion pictures; Fred C. Trump, real estate; Warren Austin, United Nations; Don Ameche, television; Sidney J. Allen, business; Winthrop Rockefeller, society; and William Harloe, shipping.
The Foundation also named Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Columbia university president, for his selection of ties and hats and complimented New York City police commissioner Thomas F. Murphy for reviving the popularity for the "big mustache."
New York—(U.P.)—Gen. George C. Marshall is one of the nation's 12 best dressed men because his "Brightly hued" suits are causing other "distinguished" gentlemen to liven up their wardrobes, the Fashion Foundation of America said today.
Marshall Is Best Dressed
Donald Squires will speak to the Geology club on "Coral Atolls of the Marshall Islands" 7:30 p.m. today in 426 Lindley hall. He will augment his speech with colored slides.
Donald Squires To Speak To Club
visitors are welcome and refreshments will be served following the program.
Dr. R. Q. Brewster, chairman of the chemistry department, accepted the position of faculty advisor at meeting of the Chemistry club held Thursday afternoon, Oct. 19. Officers for the 1950-51 school year were elected.
The officers are: Marvin Ravsch,
College junior, president; Dean
Cole, College junior, vice-president;
Marilyn Wisdom, College senior,
secretary, and Donald Coyne,
College senior, treasurer.
Chemistry Club Elects Officers
Sunday Hikers See Muskrat Swamp
Insect larvae and animals were specimens collected on a Sunday afternoon hike to the swamps near Lakeview, located northwest of Lawrence. The specimens are on exhibit in 301 Snow hall today and tonight.
The trip to Lakeview was one of the regularly scheduled hikes sponsored by the biological science departments of the University. Two previous trips have gone to the Robinson natural history reservation and to Baldwin woods.
The exhibit includes numerous insects and small water animals. A particularly interesting feature is of dragonfly larvae that illustrate nature's attempt at jet propulsion. The insects move by means of sucking in water and then squirting it out under pressure .
The swamp is known as "muskat swamp" due to several muskrat huts located there. Other small animals seen on the hike included rabbits, squirrels, pack rats, and field mice.