Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Sept. 21, 1950
Lawrence, Kansas
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
TCU Pep Rally Will Be Held Friday Night
Arthur C. "Dutch" Lonborg, K. U. athletic director, Varsity football coaches, and the 1950 Jawhawker co-captains, tackle Mike McCormack, and fullback John Amberg, will make short talks at the rally concerning the K. U.-T. C. U. football game on Saturday.
A combination pre-game rally for the Texas Christian university football game and dance will be held at 8 p. m. Friday at the Student Union building terrace, Beverly Jennings, a member of the student union board of directors, announced today.
"I hope that all students will plan to attend this rally and get their voices tuned up for Saturday's big opening game with T. C. U." Don Hull, head cheerleader, said today. "It is important that we give Coach Sikes, his coaching staff, and fine team all the cooperation and support in the form of organized cheering in our opener."
Statewide Group Has Positions Open
Immediately following the rally, a dance will be held in the Hawks' Nest with a pep band providing music for dancing. "The舞 is free and all students are invited to come hog, stag, or drag." Miss Jennings said.
Anyone interested in assisting in state-wide activities this semester should pick up an application at 226 Strong hall. The application forms are available today, Don Porter, secretary of the state-wide activities commission, announce Wednesday
1950 Jayhawker Issues Available Now In Union
All students who failed to pick up any issue of the 1950 Jayhawker magazine may do so now at the Jayhawker office in the Union building, William Howell, editor of the campus publication, announced today.
Short Pep Rally Friday Morning
A short pep rally between the 9 and 10 a.m. classes will be held at 9:45 Friday morning in Fowler grove, Donovan Hull, head cheer-leader, said today.
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"This is the first pep rally of the year and I hope all students will try to attend and let the coaches and team know we're behind them 100 per cent." Hull said.
Jules V, Sikes, head football coach, Bob Talkington, senior tackle, and Dean Wells, junior halfback, will make short talks. A pep band will be on hand to provide music for songs and cheers.
Flying Fireball Replaces Saucer
Denver, Sept. 21—(U.P.)—A new version of the flying saucer—the flying fireball—was reported today to have zoomed across the Western sky Wednesday night while hundreds of Colorado and Wyoming residents looked on.
Reports of the mysterious phenomena varied from "two blazing objects" to one big one with a squadron of smaller ones behind it.
Denver witnesses described the objects as tear shaped and spewing red and yellow or orange-colored flame. One Denverite said the fireballs gave off a "cracking, hissing sound," and a pilot reported hearing a low humming noise.
Mrs. M. C. Simpson, Fort Collins, was the first Coloradoan to report seeing the fireballs. She said she saw one big one with several smaller ones behind it at about 10:45 p.m.
Britain Plans Quiet Meeting Of Belligerent Scot Clans
In Northern Colorado, the objects generally appeared to be one or two large balls of fire with about three smaller ones trailing behind. However, by the time they reached Denver, the trailers seemed to have disappeared.
Most observers agreed the objects were moving south.
Observers in the C.A.A. control tower at the Pueblo, Colo., airport called the objects "rockets" and estimated their speed at 1,000 miles an hour. They also said sparks fell from the tails to the ground. The fireballs were reported as low as 2,000 feet and as high as 20,000.
London—(U.P.)—Festival of Britain officials stepped right in where angels have feared to tread for centuries.
This is something like asking the Hatfields and the McCoys to give up feudin' and fightin' in favor of a Sunday Social, complete with pink lemonade — only it's worse, much worse!
Some of the clans have hated the sight of each other's Tartans for centuries. There are family massacres burned as deep as battles in Scottish history, and Scottish memories are long.
together next year for the first time.
It still isn't quite safe to mention the North Inch of Perth in some baronial strongholds in the highlands—and that clan struggle took place in 1396.
But the Festival of Britain—the labor government - sponsored National exposition for 1951—has been looking for something that would dramatize the unity of the United Kingdom. The officials decided they had found what they wanted in their plan for a great gathering of the clans.
gathering of the clans
There hasn't been any real gathering of the clans—any bloodless one, that is—since 1745. The organizers believe thousands of Scotsmen in the U.S. and Canada would welcome the chance to come here and meet the chiefs of their clans.
He vowed his clan would have nothing to do with the enterprise. The war cry of the Camerons of Lochiel is "Sons of the hounds, come here and get flesh." That gives you an idea.
But Lt. Col. George Malcolm of Potalloch, chief of the Clan McCallum, and Tom Macpherson, chairman of the Council of Clan Societies, believe that more than half of the 100 clans will accept.
Sir Michael Bruce of clan Bruce suggested someone should congratulate the organizers for their courage.
"Theatrical nonsense," snorted Sir Donald Cameron of Lochiel when he heard about it.
"The Campbells are coming," he said, "and so are the Mackinnons, the Macgregors, the Macleans, Macleads and Mackays. There may be as many as 65 clan chiefs there."
Korean Leader Is Optimistic About War's End
Korea, Sept. 21—(U.P.)-President Syngman Rhee of the Korean republic is planning a return to Seoul at the earliest possible moment. Thereafter, he expects to achieve a united Korea, ignoring the 38th parallel of which he says, jokingly, "Show it to me, where is it?"
Rhee believes it is all over but the mop-up in which he anticipates the rapidly growing Republic of Korea army will play a predominant role.
"The reds can bury their guns and hide their uniforms, but we know how to find them." Rhee said.
Rhee believes the overwhelming majority of Koreans are not Communists, but were dragged into the North Korean army. He believes the actual Communists were a minority in North Korea but Russia took charge and soon subjugated the territory along the Balkan pattern.
Rhee has ample reason to be proud of the manner in which his Korean army has taken shape. I met General Yu and General Lak, two of their top commanders. Both are products of the Japanese war college with actual combat experience since.
In the streets of Taegu and other cities you see all stages of the development of the new Korean army, from the rarest recruits in old clothes going along in columns toward training centers and not always looking too happy about it, to the alert, chins-up, sharp-uniformed infantrymen, stepping smartly along at the double.
These lads look eager and willing when you see them marching briskly and singing rousingly. Occasionally a Korean military band, a rare thing in this war, leads a parade, playing some American hit tune.
General Kim, commander of the Korean air force, has some experienced youngsters and expects to have many more Korean pilots flying shortly.
The Air Force has hashed up the enemy's tanks and mechanized transport and blitzed his factories, but the question remains, will he get fresh material and from where.
1083 But notwithstanding the fact that we are starting to get some semblance of a striking force in the field after nearly three months on the defensive, it would be premature to jump to the conclusion that the war is over or that we can give our undived attention to the World Series without worrying about this Asiatic war.
Gen. Frank Milburn arrived after a rush trip from Germany and now commands the First Corps. He is a fighter in the Patton tradition whose idea is to keep slamming ahead.
fresh material
Word of General MacArthur's master stroke at Inchon is just commencing to percolate among the enemy around the Pusan perimeter. This is one reason they are giving ground, which the MacArthur strategy intended to accomplish.
But it is still uncertain whether the enemy army around the Pusan perimeter knows what's going on around Seoul. We have showered them with leaflets giving the word.
Our advance is no parade. Enemy trickery still moves our road mines to the path of our own traffic. Some jeeps are armor-plated underneath, but these road mines can capsize a tank.
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You still see plenty of our lads jeeping to the rear on stretches, just the soles of their shoes showing. Like most of the wounded they seem singularly uninterested and quiet.
Mortar Fire Slows Marines At Seoul
Tokyo, Friday, Sept. 22—(U.P.)—U.S. Marines jumped off in a two-pronged drive to capture Seoul shortly after dawn Thursday, but their advance was slowed by a hail of machine gun, mortar and antitank fire thrown out by desperately fighting Communists.
Fighting Heavy In Indo-China
These sources said French troops had inflicted "heavy casualties" on a Vietnam battalion near the town of Thaiibinh, 48 miles southeast of Tonkin's chief city of Hanoi.
Saigon, Indo-China, Sept. 21.—(U.P)
Heavy fighting between French Legionnaires and Vietnam Communist troops has broken out in various sections of Indo-China's Tonkin Province, French sources said today.
They said French ground forces also "wiped out" another Vietnambattalion 48 miles east of Hanoi, near Dongtrieu, and that Communist troops were threatening Phatdiem. 66 miles southeast of Hanoi.
The new actions occurred approximately 150 miles south of the Chinese Communist border and invasion route to Indo-China, where other French troops are operating against the Communists around Dongkhe, Caobang, Moncay and Inhlap.
Latest reports from the north said that French African Goums and paratroopers had driven north from the recaptured fortress of Dongkhe in pursuit of the Communists.
These reports said French patrols also blanketed the countryside around Caobang, Moncay, Loakay and Dinhlap, watching for possible fresh Communist outbreaks.
Week Named For Disabled
Topeka-(U.P)-Gov. Frank Carlson has proclaimed the week beginning Oct. 1 as "Employ the Physically Handicapped" week in the Sunflower state.
Comdr. T. H. Moore, commander of tactical air control squadron No. 1, said 5th regiment patrols entered the northern outskirts of Seoul at 6 p. m. Wednesday.
U. P. correspondent Rutherford Peats said that one Marine unit swept across a mile-wide valley of rice paddies, across 20-feet high dikes, and a small Han river tributary into the western section of Yongdungpo at 10:20 a.m. Thursday.
Enemy fire from both flanks and in the rear of one unit along the south bank of the Han delayed follow-up blows aimed at securing the Seoul suburb and the road which the Communists must use in their withdrawal from the Pusan beachhead to the south.
Marine and Navy fighter bombers, some operating from Kimpo air-field, filled the cloudless skies over the smoke-smudged Seoul battlefront, and attacked in roaring dives with rockets, machine guns and flaming gasoline jelly bombs.
American artillery poured round after round into Yongdungpo and the hills in front of the seventh infantry advance on the south and the Marine advance north of the Han at the gates of Seoul.
United Press war correspondent Robert Miller quoted prisoners and refugees as saying that Seoul was under martial law and that the Communists had commandeered all street cars to evacuate the wounded. They said South Korean underground units had sabotaged the city's utilities and were preparing mass uprisings to coincide with Marine entry into the capital.
Correspondent Miller said that a Soviet-built T-34 tank captured Thursday contained Soviet log books and instruction pamphlets, showing it had been used by Russian army units until mid-July when it was shipped to South Korea and turned over to the Communist army.
Salina Girl Is Confident Of Happiness With Errol
New York, Sept. 21—(U.P.)—Patrice Wymore, from Salina, a strawberry blonde tap dancer with extraordinary curves said confidently today that her pending marriage to Errol Flynn will be "solid as a rock."
She said she hoped they could be married Sept. 26, but in Paris Flynn said he was afraid it might take "two or three weeks" to complete the arrangements and iron out all technicalities.
"I'm in such a whirl I hardly know what I'm doing," she said. "I expect we'll either get married in Nice or Monaco. It's going to be just beautiful. I know it."
Although she was still "rushing around getting things together," Miss Wymore said her trousseau had been packed for "weeks." She also had her wedding ring—"a circle of diamonds set in platinum," which they selected weeks ago.
Miss Wymore is almost 5 feet 8 inches tall, in her early 20's and is extremely near-sighted.
She danced her way to Hollywood in less than a year, and met Flynn while making her second picture "Rocky Mountain." He was her leading man. Before going into pictures she worked on the Broadway stage and in various night clubs.
Miss Wymore said it was not love at first sight for her and the twice-married Flynn. Both had "given it quite a lot of thought," she said.
Miss Wymore said her parents would accompany her to France for the wedding. They arrived Monday from her home at Salina. She said she and Flynn planned to be married in a Protestant church and that she would wear a white lace gown with train and hat.
"After the wedding, we'll travel on our honeymoon to Trinidad to pick up Errel's yacht, the Zaca, then sail to Jamaica." she said.
She said that after the wedding she planned to continue working. She has been appearing at the Strand theater, but her engagement there ends today. She expects to reach Paris Saturday.
Flynn, married and divorced from Lily Damita and Nora Eddington, recently was engaged to Princess Irina Ghica. But Miss Wymore had no fears of losing Flynn.
"I just hope everybody can be as happy as we will be," she said.