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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4; 1950
World Wide News
French Retreat From Indo-Chinese Reds
Saigon, Indo-China, Oct. 4—(U.P.)—French forces battling Indo-Chinese Communist guerrillas have withdrawn from Caobang, northern border fortress straddling the two main invasion routes from Red China, it was announced today.
The French are gaining in the south but being pressed back in the North in their struggle with the rebel forces of Moscow-trained Ho Chi-Minh. Caobang was their northernmost strong point.
It was presumed that Caobang, 120 miles north of Hanoi, was destroyed together with heavy military equipment before it was evacuated.
Volcano Erupts In Japan
Tokyo, Oct. 4 (U.P.)—Mount Asama erupted today with a roar that shook windows 15 miles away. Observatories said the eruption was of medium intensity, bigger than that of Sept. 23 which killed one person and injured six.
Casualties Added To Lists
Washington, D.C., Oct. 4—U.P.
The defense department today added
another 440 names to the U.S. casualty list in the Korean fighting.
List number 114 included 117 killed, 236 wounded, 18 injured and 69 missing.
Marines To Call Reserves
Washington, Oct. 4—U.P.)-T h e Marine corps announced today it will call into active service 13 additional reserve fighter squadrons between now and Jan. 1.
Miss Horalek Has Surgery
Margaret Joyce Horalek, junior in education, underwent an emergency appendectomy Sept. 28 in Watkins Memorial hospital. Her condition is satisfactory.
Latvian Student Gets Thrill In Using Electric Washer
Tatjana Plume, a Latvian student attending the University on a Westminster scholarship, experienced a real thrill the past week by doing her washing with an electric washer for the first time.
"One of my first impressions of America was the fact that people are so busy and so much in a hurry," Miss Plume said. "Sometimes I'm getting busy now, too." she added.
Although a Latvian, Miss Plume comes from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, where she has studied since 1944 when she, with her parents fled before the Russian invasion. For three years she studied psychology and German.
Miss Plume was one of 300 displaced persons who were students at the University of Innsbruck. The past summer she was chosen as a representative of the Baltic states to come to the United States. Her coming was directed through the World Student Relief office which is a division of the International Refugee organization.
Miss Plume's parents have obtained visas for entrance to Canada and expect to arrive within a month.
Commenting on the comparison of the school systems she has attended, she said, "We have much more academic freedom than you here; we don't have to go to classes so regularly, except at examination time."
In Europe the classroom procedure is different, she explained. "The instructors only lecture; there is no discussion unless it is a seminar class."
"Attendance at our gymnasium is compulsory," she said. In Europe gymnasium is the eight years of schooling after the first five years of grammar school. Miss Plume attended gymnasium in Latvia and Augsburg, Germany.
After being on the University campus for three weeks, she says she enjoys it in spite of housekissness. "When I met a student group of several nationalities recently, it made me feel more at home, since America really is only a combination of nationalities." She reports there is much more social contact on the American campus.
In addition to speaking Latvian and English, she knows German, Russian, and Spanish.
Miss Plume is particularly interested in clinical psychology since she came to the University. At Innssbruck her main interest was child psychology. She is continuing her study of German.
Mathematicians' Jobs Unlimited, Price Says
As a result of the many scientific developments made during the first and second world wars there now exists an unprecedented demand for mathematicians, Dr. G. B. Price, professor of mathematics, said Thursday at a meeting of the mathematics club.
Dr. Price spoke on the subject, "Careers in Mathematics."
"The world has changed from the automobile to the atomic age and now we are building all sorts of complicated devices that require mathematical analysis," Dr. Price said.
He emphasized the fact industry offers many varied opportunities for qualified mathematicians," but, the mathematician in industry is a consultant and has to be good in order to succeed."
Possible fields of applied mathematics in which the college graduate might be successful Dr. Price said are: communication engineering, or research on the problems of communication; aeronautical engineering, dealing with new designs of aircraft; and petroleum engineering dealing with problems of the removal of oil from the earth and its transportation after removal.
Other interesting fields he believes are: atomic energy; computational
machines, as the Norden bomb sight and the mechanical brains; stalistics, which can be teamed up with almost any field, such as economics; and operations analysis, which deals with the supplying of executives, especially military commanders, of a mathematical basis for decisions.
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A Latvian-born author who once was sentenced to die before a Russian firing squad will speak at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in 206 Strong hall.
Latvian Author Will Describe Soviet System
He is Dr. Karlis Leyasmeyer, an evangelist, who has first-hand information about the Soviet Union, through his connection with the Displaced Persons organization. Dr. Leyasmeyer was arrested, tortured, and sentenced to die before a Russian firing squad. His rescue was described by Dr. Leyasmeyer as being "miraculously delivered by God."
The Latvian had opportunity to study the Soviet system from first-hand sources when he took advanced studies at Riga. He studied Russian language, literature, and history, Marxism-Leninism, and the Soviet Russian political, economic, and social system.
Through his affiliation with the D.P. press, he continues to receive information concerning the Soviet.
He was graduated from the English institute and the Evangelical Theological school in Riga, and the University of Latvia.
Dr. Leyasmeyer's activities were varied during his last four years in Germany. He was an evangelist in displaced persons camps and in German congregations. He engaged in relief work, lectured to students in West German universities, edited a large educational-scientific magazine, and was secretary of the D.P. press.
Dr. Leyasmeyer and his family entered the United States in 1949 for permanent residence under the displaced persons act. He is sponsored at the University by the Inter-Varsity Christian fellowship.
Dr. Leyasmeyer will also speak at the I.V.C.F. missionary service noon Friday in Danforth chapel, and will be in Lawrence for a week to appear before various church and student gatherings.
Combination F. H. A.-G. I. loans will terminate Oct. 20.
HOCH AUDITORIUM Friday, Oct. 13
Advance Tickets 2.00
Balcony Seats 1.25
Student Union Activities
Plays To Start Oct.10
Two one-act plays, "Fumed Oak" by Noel Coward and "August Does His Bit" by George Bernard Shaw, will be given for four nights beginning Tuesday, Oct. 10.
Appearing in "Fumed Oak", are Bill Van Almen, College sophomore; Leola Stewart, education junior; Marjorie Fisher, education junior; and Carolyn Oliver, College sophomore. Appearing in "Augustus Does His Bit" are Frank Leban, College freshman; John White, College junior; and Arden Angst, education junior.
The plays will be performed in
the Little theater, Green hall, at 8 p.m. each night. The box office will open at 7:30 p.m. and admission will be 25 cents a person.
Tryouts for future "Lab" shows will be held today at 7.15 p.m. Those who have previously attended tryouts need not do so again, said Thomas Shay, director of the theater.
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