FAGE TWELVE
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1950
Music, Browsing Room Houses 1,000 Records
The Music and Browsing room on the first floor of the Union building, has more than 1.000 classical and semiclassical records plus a wide variety of books that may be used in the room by any University student.
The Music room was established in 1938 through a grant from the Carnegie foundation. This grant included a collection of 500 records, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary of Music, a record player, and separate console speaker.
Since then, the Union, has allotted a budget for the record library and added records to the collection each year. The selections are based on suggestions by students using the Music room.
Music Room.
The Browsing room was added to the Music room in 1947. The University library allows an annual budget of $400 to make purchases for a permanent library collection.
New records added to the collection this year are "Hungarian Dances" No.1, 3 and 7 by Brahms; "My Favorite Album," by Fritz Kreisler; excerpts from "Madame Butterfly," by Puccini; "Symphony" No.1, 2, and 4 by Beethoven; and "Waltz from Suite 15" No.2, by Arnsely.
Some additions to the Browsing room are "The Permanent Goethe" by Thomas Mann; "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte; "David Copperfield," by Charles Dickens; "South Pacific," by Rogers and Hammerstein; "Nineteen Eighty-Four," George Orwell; "Amateur Movies and How to Make Them," by Alex Strasser; and "Middlemarch" by George Elliot.
Polls Open To Students
Students who are residents of Kansas and wish to vote on election day, Tuesday. Nov. 7, can do so at any polling booth in Lawrence.
The votes of students who do not live in Douglas county will be sent to their local boards. Unless the student is a resident of Kansas City, Kan., Topeka, or Wichita he does not have to register to vote. Students of the three major cities have to be registered before they can vote.
An out-of-county voter should ask for an in-state absentee ballot when he goes to the poll.
Students living out of state who wish to vote in the election must write to their local boards for out-of-state ballots. These ballots should be returned to their local board without delay.
There will be no booth on the campus for student voting, the registrar's office said.
French Exam To Be Given Nov.18
The special French examination for the doctor of philosophy degree will be held Saturday, Nov. 18, not Nov. 12 as stated in the University Daily Kansan Monday.
For approval of material, candidates should see Miss Barbara Craig, assistant professor of French who will administer the test.
French Official To Indo-China
Hanoi, Indo-China, Oct. 19—U.P.) Veteran French colonial warrior Gen. Alphonse Juin flew into this Northern Indo-China city today and plunged immediately into plans to stop the rampaging Communist columns bearing down toward it from the north.
He arrived while unconfirmed reports from Hong Kong said that 15,000 Chinese Communist troops had crossed into Indo-China to join Ho Chi-Minh's guerrilla army driving the French back toward Hanoi.
Four plans of French military experts and a fighter escort arrived with Juin, who rushed to Indo-China from Paris earlier this week.
Juin's plane set down at Hanoi airport at noon as the fighters flew a protective cover.
a protective Accompanying Juin, a heroic fighter in World War II, were Associated States Minister Jean Letourneau, who accompanied him from Paris, and French Inspector General Charles Valluy. Security patrols have been doubled here and in other large cities in northern Indo-China and a "state of alert" has been ordered throughout Tonkin province.
Review To Be Tonight
Six student speakers will appear in this year's "All-Star Forensic Review" to be presented in Strong auditorium tonight.
Fred Six, president of the Forensic league, said the speeches will be both informative and entertaining. Six, a College senior, will speak on "The Good Old Days."
The other speakers and their topics are: Soey Bong, business senior; "Will Communism Succeed in Asia?"; Kent Shearer, college senior; "A Ring of Steel;" Mary Lou Lane, education senior; "Faith, Fact, or Fiction"; Richard Hunter, journalism junior; "Corduroy Pants and the Atomic Bomb"; and Steve Mills, College senior. "You Name It."
Keith Wilson, College senior, will be master of ceremonies. There will be no admission charge.
Annual Fire School To Be
The University of Kansas Extension service will sponsor the 21st annual Kansas Fire school Monday, October 23, through Thursday, October 26 in fire station no. 1 in Hutchinson.
US And Korean Troops Smash Into Pyongyang
Pyongyang, North Korea, Oct. 19—(U.R.)-The U.S. 5th cavalry regiment smashed into Pyongyang behind a spearhead of tanks today after a 12-mile advance against heavy Communist resistance.
The armored cavalrymen entered this Communist capital about 10:30 a.m. (8:30 p.m. Wednesday, E.S.T.).
Almost simultaneously, the South Korean 1st division was reported to have driven into the outskirts of Pyongyang from the east.
The 5th cavalry regiment took over the thrust toward Pyongyang this morning from the 7th cavalry regiment, which had been counter-attacked by the Reds during the night. The attack was repulsed and seven enemy tanks were knocked out.
Led by tanks, the 5th cavalrymen broke through the enemy defense line of dug-in tanks, artillery, and trenches manned by Red troops with automatic weapons.
The cavalrymen advanced 10 to 12 miles during the morning against what a spokesman for the 1st cavalry division called "very heavy and very stubborn resistance."
"We've captured thousands of prisoners," the spokesman said.
Elements of two other units were reported to have driven just south of Chinampo, the west coast port ofPyongyang and believed the western hangout of the last Communist units.
Three Dead, 10 Missing, In Florida Storm
Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 19 — (U.P.) Hurricane-battered Florida had at least three dead, 10 mission and $10 million in damages today while the mighty storm dwindled into rain squalls in Georgia.
As the worst Florida hurricane in more than 20 years died away, another big blow began churning up in the Gulf of Mexico.
up in the Gun Bar. Small craft from Brownsville, Tex. to Mobile, Ala., were warned to stay in port and the U.S. weather bureau ordered storm warnings displayed from Texas to Alabama.
A U.S. weather bureau advisory at 4:30 a.m. (E.S.T.) said the Gulf of Mexico storm appears to be drifting slowly westward and was centered about 240 miles southeast of the Galveston-Lake Charles area. Highest winds are about 50 m.p.h. in heavier squalls and slow westward or northwestward movement is expected for the next 12 hours.
Personnel of Ellington air force base at Houston, Tex., were ordered on a stand-by alert in case it became necessary to fly planes out of the danger zone.
Jacksonville was the last big city to feel the real power of the hurricane which was generating 125-mile-an-hour winds when it lashed Miami on the Florida gold coast early Wednesday and whirled on through the rich vegetable and citrus belts. An estimated 50 persons were injured. Hundreds were homeless.
Team To Honor Fathers Saturday
Fathers of the Jayhawker football players will sit on the sideline benches at the Oklahoma A. & M game. Fifty-five fathers or sponsors will attend the game as guests of the athletic association in celebration of the annual Jayhawker Dad's day.
A luncheon will be held in their honor in the Union before the game. At the game the dads will wear numbered cards on their backs corresponding to the numbers on their sons' red jerseys.
This is the fifth celebration since the tradition was revived in 1946 after a lapse of 13 years.
Government Not Controlled By Reds, Says Austrian Girl
Communists in Austria have support from Russia, but they compose only 5 per cent of the total population and are not succeeding in overthrowing the present government, Miss Ilse Hofbauer from Austria said.
Pygmalion Next Movie In Series
It will be shown in Hoch auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Friday.
The Harvard Crimson on March 14, 1949, said the movie ranks with "Hamlet" and "Henry V" as convincing proof that great plays can be made into great movies without sacrificing anything to film technique.
The picture stars Wendy Hiller and Leslie Howard. It was selected as one of the ten best in 1938.
The film set a new record in New York for a reissue run at two theaters and set new reissue run records in theaters in Boston and Washington.
The New York Daily News said the picture is "Delightfully amusing satire. Shaw's lines are as witty and full of wisdom today as when he first penned them."
The New York Sun, said: "Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller turn in such distinguished performances that these Shaw characters seem flesh and blood. Surprisingly believable, and the dialogue is witty and meaty."
Topeka Reporter Speaks To SDX
Little Man On Campus
The third picture in the series will be shown Friday, Nov. 3.
Roscoe Born of the Topoka State Journal spoke at an informal Sigma Delta Chi meeting Wednesday.
Mr. Born, police courthouse reporter, answered questions for SDX members and told of some of his more difficult and exciting stories.
Mr. Born, a former student at the University was accompanied by Tom Kiene, city editor of the State Journal, and Edgar Laubengayer, telegraph editor.
Frankly, Louise, I think a simple 'no' would have been just as effective."
Miss Hofbauer, a journalism student from Vienna, arrived in the United States about a month ago on the foreign student exchange program. The former University of Vienna student is living at the Alpha Delta Pi sorority house.
She reported Paris fashion shows for an Austrian newspaper and also worked for a financial publication there.
"In 1938, all factories in Austria were taken over by Hitler." Miss Hofbauer said. "After the war, Russia took these factories and thou many Austrians are working in them, all the products go to Pussia. We aren't allowed to use them."
"A lot of refugees from behind the Iron Curtain have come into Austria from Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Romania. They are living in barracks and are supported by the Austrian and United States governments.
"Hungarian refugees in Vienna are the most elegant people. Every refugee wants to come to the American zone, but the Russians will not permit it. All trains which cross the border from the Russian zone are stopped by Soviet officials and each passenger has to show an indentification card."
One said that the Austrians have been greatly helped by the Marshall plan, and they have received much food and machinery.
Press Exhibit In Fraser
Copies of Denmark's most popular magazines, some special publications and governmental bulletins now on display in Fraser give an idea of what the average Dane reads and what the major differences are between the American and Danish press.
On the whole, the various publications in the display prepared by the German department have much in common with popular American magazines as Ladies' Home Journal, Life and others.
A few, however, represent a kind of publication unknown in America as the conditions for their existence are not prevalent here. They deal with governmental institutions such as the Danish state church bulletin or the radio magazine containing weekly schedule of the Danish s radio service, whose program a high cultural level and has n vertising at all. Another interest and unique publication is the o of both the employers and unions, which is something of curiosity.
How to help the 135 foreign students at the University, and how the school can receive from them the fine things from their cultures were discussed at the second College faculty meeting Tuesday.
Faculty Discuss Foreign Students
Donald Alderson, assistant dean of men, told the faculty about the various students, how they are financed, and explained their personal problems.
Dr. J. A. Burzle, associate professor of German, explained the selection of students and the variety organizations which sponsor them
Dove Meeting To Be Held In Strong Hall Tonight
A meeting of all students interested in the Dove, campus like newspaper, will be held in 9 Strhall at 8 p.m. tonight. An edu-staff for this school term were elected at the meeting.
Bromleigh Lamb, editor the pye year, said publication of the fir issue this year has been set f Monday, Nov. 20. He said the new paper plans more local empha this year than it has in the past