Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Sept. 19, 1950
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
Students Inducted In Night Ceremony
Dr. L. C. Woodruff, dean of men, told the traditional story of the firebasket Monday night at the New Student induction, taking the place of the late Dr. Frank F. Melvin.
Dean Woodruff gave a brief history of the early years of the University to the new students of the University at the 25th annual ceremony on North College hill.
He told how the first settlers to this area planned a state university, and while he talked, a member of Mortar Board lighted the firebasket with a torch which was handed down the line of Mortar Board and Sachem members to the Chief Sachem, Joseph E. Balloun, business senior. Balloun then carried the torch to the Rock Chalk Cairn and kindled a fire there.
The Alma Mater was sung and followed by the Rock Chalk yell. The new students then marched to Memorial stadium and wove their way into the north end of the stadium as the K.U. band played.
The fire which had been kindled by the Chief Sachem was visible in Rock Chalk cairn as members of Sachem, mens' senior honorary society, prepared for the torch race.
Melvin Clingan, business senior president of the All Student Council, welcomed the new students, and introduced Deane W. Malott, chancellor of the University, who gave a Scripture reading which was the background for the story of the University Seal.
Dr. George B. Smith, dean of the School of Education, interpreted the seal of the University, and Chancellor Malott explained how fire had become the symbol of knowledge and its part in the University Seal.
As a bugle sounded and the lights were turned out, the torch race followed with members of Sachem running a flaming torch, which symbolized knowledge being passed from generation to generation, from Rock Chalk cairn to the speakers' platform. The torch was handed to Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary, who passed it down the line of class representatives to the freshman male representative who lighted the fire on the platform, completing the cycle from the site of the first fire symbolizing the University to the students of 1950 gathered in the stadium.
Chancellor Malott then administered the oath of allegiance to the new students and told them their obligations to the University.
The ceremony ended with the Alma Mater and the Rock Chalk yell.
Labor Party Votes Today
London, Sept. 19—(U.P.)-L a b or party whips counted up a paper margin of three votes for Prime Minister Clement Attlee's government today as Britain's House of Commons got set for a crucial vote on the nationalization of steel.
The life of Attlee's five-year-old experiment in Socialism will be at stake when the chamber votes at 10 p.m. (6 p.m. CST) on whether to go ahead with nationalizing the steel industry at a time when Britain is swinging into war production.
Both parties summoned invalids—several MP's are expected to be accompanied by doctors-for the showdown vote. Winston Churchill's Conservatives and the allied Liberals were expected to be at full strength while several Laborites were sure to miss the session.
Attlee's party had a numerical majority over all others of seven votes. But it was reduced by illness and absenteeism.
Marines Ready To Storm Seoul
Tokyo, Wednesday, Sept. 20—(U)S. U. Marines have stormed across the Han river in darkness for their final assault against Seoul.
It was the climax to Gen. Douglas MacArthur's surprise landing the past Friday at the Port of Inchon, 150 miles behind the enemy's southern battle lines.
MacArthur's two-front nutcracker operation was moving fast.
United Press Correspondent Jack James reported he was waiting at the Han to follow the Marines across as quickly as possible.
On the Pusan beachhead perimeter, Americans of the 24th division captured Waegwan, opening the door northward along the main highway from Taegu to Seoul.
South Koreans stormed into the ruined port of Pohang. On all fronts the enemy was in retreat.
the enemy. It was another day of steady gains for the Americans and South Koreans whose offensive has been virtually unchecked since Gen. Douglas MacArthur struck the first sledgehammer blow to crush the Communists in South Korea Friday.
South Korean forces entered the ruined east coast port of Pohang from two directions, and at Seoul—northern line of this two-front war—another Marine division smashed to the Han behind a rolling barrage of artillery. Navy and Marine fighter-bombers led the way.
In the Inchon-Seoul area, 150 miles north of the Pusan beach-head, American and South Korean Marines and the Army 10th corps seventh division were taking their positions along the Han river as methodically as students preparing for fire drill.
The Marines were in the Seoul industrial suburb of Youngdunpo and were consolidating positions along nine and a half miles of the west bank of the Han river opposite Seoul. Youngdunpo is on the west bank of the Han.
Units of the seventh were fanning southward toward Suwon highway hub, 15 miles south of Seoul.
A skytrain of giant C-119 "flying boxcars" and C-54 skymasters roared into Kimpo airport all Tuesday afternoon, bringing gasoline and ammunition for Marine fighters.
New York, Sept. 19—(UP)The United States, Britain, and France pledged today that they will consider any attack on West Germany or Berlin "from any quarter" as an attack upon themselves.
Big Three Decide To Back Germany
The announcement was made by the Big Three foreign ministers at the end of a week of conferences here.
Their promise means that the united stand against aggression adopted previously in the Atlantic pact and the Rio De Janeiro agreement has now been extended to all of Germany which remains free of Russian control.
38 Students Are Accepted For NROTC
Capt. W. R. Terrell, professor of Naval Science, today announced that 38 students have been accepted by the University and the University of Kansas for admission to the University under the Holloway plan. These students are in addition to the 30 selected as contract midshipman by the N.R.O.T.C. The 38 students selected receive $50 a month from the Navy during their four years at the University in addition to books, tuition, uniforms and equipment.
Students for the "regular" program are chosen on the basis of a nation-wide competitive examination. Examinations will be given Saturday, Dec. 9. Students interested should obtain application blanks from the professor of Naval Science, Military Science Building prior to Sunday, Oct. 1. Students applying should be not younger than 17 and not more than 21 years of age on July 1. 1951.
Students selected as regular mid-shimmen this year are:
James W. Atkinson, John E. Bailard, John J. W. Brand, Richard B. Brown, James E. Burgess, Wheelock H. Cameron, Duane J. Chittenden, Richard D. Collins, Donald L. Creighton, Herschel C. C. Cloud.
Edwin D. Evans, Daniel W. Fox.
Charles E. Gillam, Theodore T
Hogan Jr., Donald H. Humphreys.
Jerry J. Jester, Prentis H. Kidd,
Donald E. Lloyd.
Donald E. Loyle
John A McCullough, Lynn R. McDougal, Richard B. McGlinn, Eddie R. Maag, John W. MacCormack.
Duane C. Nelson, Frederick S.
O'Brien, William O. Park, James F.
Peterson, Ben W. Phillips, Jimmie
L. Potts.
L. POTES
James A. Ross, Alfred A. Russell
Farrel L. Schell, Wallace J. Sickbert.
Jimmy Simmons.
Berk, O. William
Robert F. Toalson, Raymond L.
Voskamp, Jr., Marvin J. Weishaar,
Ronald B. Winslow.
Aerial Supplies Arrive At Kimpo
Lt. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer, commander of the Far Air Forces, announced the activation of the FEAF Cargo command, under the direction of Maj. Gen. William Tunner, who directed the Berlin airlift last year.
Tokyo, Sept. 19—(U.P.) A huge aerial lifeline started pumping vital supplies to the Allied invasion force hammering at Seoul today.
The operation was well under way by the time Stratemeyer announced it. Flying box-cars began around-the-clock flights to Kimop airfield, near Seoul, this morning. By 5 p.m., 32 aircraft had moved loads totalling 215 tons.
The big flying box-cars roared in all day, carrying gasoline and ammunition for Marine fighter planes that will begin using Kimpo at once.
The transports slipped in between diving Navy and Marine carrier ships, and rocketing Communists on front lines within sight of the airport.
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The first plane to land at Kimop was piloted by Maj. Alfred W. Brownfield, Baton Rouge, La. He rolled off the runway at his Tokyo base at 11:20 a.m. Three hours and six minutes later, his radio operator, M/Sgt. Wedit C. Perry, Tacoma, Wash., flashed, "on the ground at 14:26 (2:26 p.m.). No sweat."
That meant the big C-54 had landed without mishap.
Hanson Baldwin Added To 'Crisis'
Hanson Baldwin, military affairs writer for the New York Times, has been added to the guest faculty of the "World in Crisis" evening course at the University of Kansas.
India's decision to lead the campaign to oust Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist delegation in favor of Mao Tse-Tung's Communists came as a surprise. Although India is one of the 16 U.N. members which have recognized the Peiping regime, its part in previous attempts to seat the Communists in the Security council and other U.N. organs has been more passively middle-of-the-road.
Flushing, N.Y., Sept. 19—(U.P.) Delegates of 59 nations meet today (at 3 p.m. E.D.T.) for the fifth annual session of the United Nations general assembly.
However, chief Indian delegate Sir Benegal Rau last night presented a resolution which would have the General Assembly declare that Communist China "shall be entitled to represent the Republic of China in the General Assembly" and recommend that "the other organs of the U.N. adopt similar resolutions."
Rau was not certain when he would press for debate on his resolution. However, it will require a two-thirds vote of the assembly to pass it, and it was not likely that it would get that much support.
They at once came face-to-face with a demand by India for the immediate seating of the Chinese Communists.
UN Session Opens Today
It had been expected that Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky, following the pattern set by Russian delegates in other meetings, would raise a point of order soon after Brig-Gen. Carlos P. Romulo, outgoing president, opens the meeting. Vishinsky, following the Soviet policy, would declare that the Chinese Nationalists were present illegally and would demand that they be replaced by the Chinese Communists.
Baldwin, one of the nation's leading military analysts, will speak Tuesday, Dec. 12. His period will be an evaluation of the military resources of the United States and of Russia.
Harold J. Nicholas Appointed To Staff
The appointment of Dr. Harold J. Nicholas as assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Kansas was announced recently by Cancellor Deane W. Malott.
Dr. Nicholas received the doctorate degree in June from St. Louis university where he has been a graduate fellow in biochemistry the past five years. His research has dealt with the chemistry and metabolism of steroid hormones, often called sexual hormones.
called sexual abuse. A native of St. Louis, he attended the Missouri School of Mines and Mallurgy at Rolla and received the B.S. degree in chemical engineering in 1941. For the next three years he was a research chemist for the Hercules Powder company and in 1945 was on the research staff of Parke, Davis and Co.
Dr. Nicholas will teach medica biochemistry in the School of Medicine and develop advanced courses. He and Dr. Harold W. Barrett, whose appointment was previously announced, replace the late Dr. Carl F. Nelson and also provide an expansion in the biochemistry faculty.
The series of lectures will be opened at 7 p.m. today in Fraser theater by Chancellor Deane W. Malott. His topic will be "The World on Your Doorstep." The lecture will be followed by a March of Time film, "The World of the Twentieth Century."
Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College, said students, faculty and visitors are expected to be seated by starting time. Doors will be closed at 7 p. m. and will not be reopened until the lecture is finished.
Students enrolled for credit will receive attendance slips as they enter the theater. After signing the slips they will turn them in at the close of the lecture.
Anyone in the audience may speak or ask questions in the open forum. Previously the discussion period was to be limited to persons enrolled for credit only.
All of the lectures will be on Tuesdays. Lecturers and their topics starting Sept. 26 will be:
Ambrose Saricks, assistant professor of history, on "Twentieth Century Transition—The World Between the Wars," Oct. 3, Miss Doris Fleeson, syndicated newspaper commentator, on "By Drift or Compass Since V. J. Day?"; Oct. 10, J. E. Fields, associate professor of political science, on "Twentieth Century Nationalism"; Oct. 17, C. B. Realey, professor of history, on "Balance of Power—Yesterday and Today."
Dec. 12, Mr. Baldwin; Dec. 19, Orient Lee, visiting professor of history, on "East Asia in Turmoil"; Jan. 9, Walter Sandelius, professor of political science, on "The United Nations—World Hope of 1945;" and Jan. 16, Henry Haskell, Jr., foreign news editor of the Kansas City Star, on "America's Foreign Policy—Direction and Prospects."
Nov. 14, T. V. Smith, philosopher and teacher at Syracuse university, on "The Democratic Way of Life and What It Offers;" Nov. 28, John Ise, professor of economics, on "The Marshall Plan-Working Reality or Utopian Dream?" Dec. 5, Leland Pritchard, professor of business, on "Problems on the Home Front."
Oct. 24, Robert Eckley, assistant professor of economics, on "The Impact of Science and Technology." Oct. 31, Oswald Backus, assistant professor of history, on "Theory and practice of Communism Within and Without the Soviet Union"; Nov. 7, George Anderson, chairman of the history department, and Prof. Backus on "At Loggerheads—American and Russian Foreign Policy."
Students May Change Or Enroll Late
The period for changes in enrollment and late enrollments in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will be from 2 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Dr. Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College, announced today. The place will be the corridor of the second floor of Strong hall.
The College office will not accept changes of schedules or late enrollments prior to that period.
Any student arriving late should select the courses he wants and begin attendance immediately on an informal basis, Dean Lawson said. Actual enrollment can be made Thursday.