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THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Nationalists Half Red Invasion
Hong Kong.—(L.P.)—Chinese Nationalist troops on Hainan island wiped out 4,000 Chinese Communist troops and blunted the edge of the latest Communist invasion of the island, the newspaper Hong Kong Standard reported.
It said also that defense commander Gen. Hsueh Yuen had served an ultimatum on the remaining 1,100 Communists to surrender by tonight or face a bloody aerial attack. Wild rejoicing on the island followed the Nationalist victory, the report said.
The newspaper said the invaders were hacked by Nationalist ground troops while Nationalist planes and warships cut off their communications with the mainland after the invasion was launched yesterday.
The report made no mention of the number of troops involved but claimed that Nationalist defenses were quickly overwhelmed.
The leftist newspaper Wen Wei-
Pao said in a Hainan dispatch that
the Communists stormed ashore at
Limkao point and Linsze harbor,
within 40 miles of Hoihow.
Reports reaching here said that Communist units had occupied tiny Lintin island, four miles outside Hong Kong waters at the mouth of the Pearl river.
These reports said the Communists bombed the island and then landed aboard river steamers and motor junks today while the Nationalist defenders withdrew aboard a destroyer transport and two junks.
Students Receive Stolen Clothing
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Clothing valued at several hundred dollars, stolen Easter Sunday, was returned to Thomas Hawkins, business senior, and Ray C. Evans, engineering freshman, April 18.
The clothing, taken from the two students' cars, was returned following the arrests of three youths Monday by the Topeka police in connection with 11 auto thefts.
Hawkins estimated his loss at $231 including two suits, two sport coats, a pair of slacks, and a set of golf clubs.
gun clubs.
Evans informed the police that his stolen clothing, valued at $217,
included a blue flannel suit, brown garadarine suit, gray overcoat, and pair of garabardine slacks.
Marvin hall,main building of the School of Engineering and Architecture, was completed in 1907.
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Basketball To Presidency Is Path Of Boots Adams
It was on a cold morning in November of 1920 that a sturdy six-foot chap, fresh off the University of Kansas campus and just turned 21, walked into the main offices of the vast Phillips Petroleum corporation and announced that he was ready to go to work.
Kenneth S. "Boots" Adams was
Kenneth S. "Boots" Adams was a little nervous as he sat in the office and told the company general superintendent that he didn't want to take a job under false pretenses. He admitted he knew nothing about the oil business and his sole claim to the job was a result of his ability to play basketball.
"I don't know an oil well from a water well," Mr. Adams confessed with the same honesty and sincerity that was to later carry him to the top of Phillips, one of America's largest petroleum companies.
Thirty years have passed since that day. Today Mr. Adams is in his 12th year behind the president's desk. He not only knows oil wells inside and out, but he also knows and understans nearly every man's job under him throughout the corporation.
This he accomplished by starting at the bottom and working up a step at a time until he became president in 1938 at the age of 38. Few men in industry have equalled his record of advancement.
He was born on a Kansas farm near Horton. When he was a year old the family moved to Kansas City, Kan. There "Boots," his brother, and sister were graduated from the grade and high schools.
Young Mr. Adams entered the University in 1517. He remained in school a short while before enlisting in the army the same year. He was sent to Officers Training school in Louisville, Ky. where he remained until after the Armistice was signed.
He returned to the University after the war. He joined the Sigma Chi fraternity and played on the freshman basketball squad. Basketball Coach Forrest C. Allen said that Adams was a fine player and, had he stayed in school, would have become a star on the varsity cage team.
"He was one of the most handsome young men I have seen and he possessed a pleasing and dominant personality," Dr. Allen added. Mr. Adams had his eye on a place on the 1920 University football squad and in preparation spent the summer in Bartlesville, Okla., getting
in condition by delivering ice. But in September of that year he married a Bartlesville girl Miss Blanche Keeler, and remained in that city.
He was asked to join the famous Phillip's 66 Oiler basketball team that fall and was given a job in the warehouse department of the company. Gradually transferring his attention from athletics to the oil business, he rose rapidly from warehouse to production division to accounting section, and by 1927 to the place of assistant secretary of the company.
In 1932 he was appointed assistant to President Frank Phillips and in 1935 was made treasurer. On January 1, 1938, he became executive vice-president and four months later took over as president.
He is the father of two children, Kenneth S. Adams, Jr., who lettered in football at K.U. in 1942, and Mary Louise Adams, who is married and has a young daughter.
Contempt Of Court Avoided By Mouse
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The judge whispered to the deputy clerk. The clerk nonchallantly opened a door and dropped a pad of paper close to the mouse's tail.
The women jurors didn't notice a thing as the rodent scampered out.
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