University Daily Kansan
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Reds Or Nationalists? China Policy Is Mystery
Hong Kong, Jan. 17—(U.P.)—Philip Jessup, U.S. roving ambassador, arrived in Hong Kong from Formosa today for a three-day visit and conferences with British, American, and Chinese officials.
Mr. Jessup declined to answer
Mr. Jessup declined to answer questions when he landed at the airport and a consular spokesman said he did not know if the American ambassador intended to confer with Chinese Communist representatives
It was understood that Mr. Jessup will fly to Manila Friday on the next stoe of his Far East tour.
Asked before he left Formosa to comment on his talk with General-issimo Chiang, Mr. Jessup said: "What I can say I have said already in the United States and Tokyo. As for Formosa, it is a beautiful island."
Reports from Taipei, Formosa,
where Mr. Jesup departed this
morning, said he left behind the
impression that he had accomplish
d nothing and promised nothing
A a 90-minute talk with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, Monday night.
Unofficial sources said Mr. Jessup and Generalissimo Chiang spent their time discussing the entire Asiatic situation, including the problems of Japan, Korea, China, and Formosa and the possible developments in Southeast Asia.
U. S. policy in the Far East already had been announced by President Truman and Dean Acheson, secretary of state, these sources indicated, and therefore Mr. Jessup's visit actually had no purpose.
Various sources close to the persons Mr. Jessup talked to during his two days in Formosa gave the impression that his visit was a courtesy call only.
The impression was that Mr. Jessup had been extremely careful to avoid making any promises or commitments and that Generalissino Chiang did likewise.
Mr. Jaspup in formosa was part of a Far East tour that now has taken him through Japan, Korea, and Formosa. He will visit the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, and Burma before attending a meeting of American Far East diplomatic representatives in Bangkok next month.
While U.S. policy in the Far East was being carefully constructed on Formosa and in the immediate vicinity, they were getting hot in the U.S. senate.
Sen. William E. Jenner, (R.-Ind.) said today that the China "debacle" is convincing proof that bi-partisan foreign policy should be changed.
In a speech prepared for senate delivery, he said the bi-partisan approach is a "gigantic hoax." Evidence is mounting daily to back up that statement. he said.
"For the past several days," he said, "this evidence has derived from the discussions on this senate floor of the debacle which our pro-Communist state department policy has brought about in China."
Senator Jenner, who has crusaded to withdraw his party from foreign policy co-operation, said bi-partisan sin is a "fraudulent slogan."
Senators who favor helping Generalissimio Chiang Kai-S h e k 's Nationalist government prepared to renew their verbal attack on the administration's Far Eastern policy. One, who asked that his name be withheld, said there might be a "surprise" move today.
Sen. William F. Knowland, (R-Calif.), leader of the pro-China group, has called for the resignation of Dean Acheson, secretary of state. But he told newsmen he plans no legislative move to put congress on record for such action.
Mr. Acheson is scheduled to appear at a closed meeting of the senate foreign relations committee next week. He will discuss the recent Communist seizure of the U.S. consulate at Peiping and the subsequent withdrawal of American consular officials from China.
House To Finish FEPC Dispute
Washington, Jan. 17—(U.P.)President Truman's fair employment practices bill came up for final argument in the house rules committee today.
Chairman Adolph J. Sabath, D., Ill., hoped to force a yes-or-no vote, but a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats that usually controls the committee was opposed.
The coalition wanted to press, instead, for fast action on their plan to reclaim the committee's old life with death power over all house legislation.
Immediately at stake was a bill carrying out Mr. Truman's proposal to outlaw job discrimination because of race color or creed.
The real issue, however, was control of the house. Administration backers conceded the coalition might win and that, if it did, most of Mr. Truman's legislative program could be written off for this session of Congress.
Mr. Sabat hoped to delay a house vote on the question of rules committee powers. He can do this a week or so—long enough to let the F.E.P.C. bill, at least, come up for a house decision.
But Rep. E. E. Cox, D., Ga., said the committee might prod the chairman with a formal vote to bring the main question up for house debate away. Mr. Sabath wouldn't have obey, Mr. Cox said, but he might.
Cox is sponsor of a resolution to reverse the past year's decision by which the house trimmed rules committee powers. The resolution approved in committee 9 to 2 Jan. 13, must come to a house vote within 10 days.
Prior to the past year's action the rules group had final say-so about what legislation the house could consider. But under the so-called 21-day rule, it was reduced to the rule that no legislative gulate, but not halt, the flow of legislation to the house floor from the regular legislative committees.
The F.E.P.C. bill is one of a number approved by other house committees but allowed to gather dust so far in the rules committee. Under the 21-day rule the labor committee hopes to by-pass the rules group.
Day Elected To UDK Job
Robert J. Day, journalism senior,
was elected business manager of the
University Daily Kansan Monday
by the Kansan board. Day has been
promotion manager of the Kansan
the past nine weeks.
Day has announced the following appointments to other positions on the business staff of the Kansan: James W. Shriver, advertising manager; Dorothy Hogan, circulation manager; Forest A. Bellus, classified manager; Charles R. Reiner, Reiner; Robert R. Robins, Honnold, national manager. All are journalism seniors except Bellus, a journalism junior.
All of the appointments are for the first nine weeks of the spring semester.
Shriver has previously been circulation manager and Miss Hogan national manager.
Mine Workers Continue Strike, Want Showdown
Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan 17—(U.P.)-Re-belling miners picked pitts through the coal fields today in an all-out bid for a nationwide "no contract, no work" coal strike.
The rank-and-file miners hoped to close down the entire coal in- industry in an effort to force a show-down in their eight-month battle for a new contract.
More than 68,000 miners in six states already were idle, cutting soft coal production by 435,000 tons daily and raising new complaints of critical coal shortages.
However, Mr. Truman told senate democratic leader Scott W. Lucas Monday that he is still not convinced the coal crisis is a national emergency as yet. Mr. Lucas and other legislators have demanded that the president take anti-strike action under the Taft-Hartley law.
Government labor officials in Washington said a special report from the bureau of mines showed that coal supplies are now so low the president might have to send justice department lawyers to court against the U.M.W. They said the lawyers would ask a Taft-Hartley injunction to force the 400,000 soft coal miners to work a full five-day week
But officials of the federal bureau of mines have informed the office that there is enough cool on hand to meet operational demands for a week or two.
It also was learned that the National Labor Relations Board was preparing a Taft-Hartley injunction against the union and "hoped" to act soon.
The rebelling miners who ignored Mr. Lewis' "suggestion" that they return to work yesterday after a one-week "spontaneous" strike, bitterly resented coal operators who shut off their credit at company stores.
But miners said they were more determined than ever to win the contract battle. "We may as well starve to death quickly as to starve to death slowly," one miner at Rices Landing, Pa., said.
Allen Headed White Foundation
Henry J. Allen, who died today at Wichita, was president of the William Allen White Foundation of the University from its start in 1944 until ill health forced him to give up the post on Nov. 7, 1949.
"Despite his age and ill health, Mr. Allen devoted much time and energy in recent years to the William Allen White Foundation, of which he was-president until last November. We are grieved by his death and shall miss his advice, which he always gave so willingly and cheerfully," said Burton W. Marvin, dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information.
Mr. Allen was succeeded as president of the foundation by Jack Harris of the Hutchinson News-Herald. He continued as a member of the board until his death.
Raines, 30, was found dead in his room here Saturday afternoon, Jan. 14. Death was caused by carbon monoxide fumes from a small gas heater in the room, Dr. F. S. Deem, coroner said.
Funeral services for Gerald E. Raines, graduate student at the University, were scheduled for 2 o'clock this afternoon in the Methodist church in Perry, Kan.
Raines Funeral At2 p.m. Today
An honor student at the University, Raines formerly attended Washburn university in Topeka. He was graduated the past spring with a degree in business and was doing research in business this year.
Raines attended the University for three years before entering the army in World War II. He served over 26 months with a bomber sounder.
He was born in Perry and attended public schools there.
WEATHER
Concert-Goers Find Program Well-Chosen,Well-Directed
KANSAS — Temperatures will plunge to a minimum range of from near zero to 10 degrees above tonight in Northern Kansas.
Bv FAYE WILKINSON
Warmly applauded by University concert-goers, the Kansas City Philharmonic orchestra under its conductor, Hans Schwieger, gave a superb concert Monday. Final week preoccupation cut attendance sharply, but the audience was a receptive one, apparently out to enjoy an evening of symphonic music, come what may.
Pictures from an Exhibition'
From the first mellow tone of the French horn to the last full chord of the program, the 80-piece group remained alert to Mr. Schwieger's excellent direction. Attacks and releases were precise; phrasing was expressive, and long introspections only played. The orchestra seemed to draw from a vast reservoir of energy—it played with sustained vigor.
The exceptionally well-chosen program began with "A Faust Overture" (Wagner). This seldom-played number does not come up to Wagnerian standards; it does not even sound like Wagner's work until the last measures.
The major work on the program was Beethoven's "Symphony No. 7 in A Major." The orchestra gave it a reading of beauty and sonority. The Seventh's many dynamic contrasts and varied melodies make it one of the most popular of the nine Beethoven symphonies. Audience favorites were the second and third movements.
(Moussorgsky-Ravel) is delightful concert music. It is a series of ten musical illustrations of pictures at an art exhibit visited by Moussorgsky. The work was originally composed for piano, but Ravel arranged it for orchestra in 1322.
The introduction, "Promenade," is used as transition between each movement. It depicts the gallery visitor walking from picture to picture. The pictures ranged from those of children quarreling, a wooden Polish cart, the ballet of hatching chickens, to those of the hut of Baba Yaga and the final inspiring climax, the great "Gate of Kiev."
Mr. Schweiger and the orchestra played one encore, the "Introduc- tion to Act III of "Lohengrin" by Wagner.
Ravel's "Bolero" in a pulsating Spanish rhythm, built up intense excitement through volume and instrumentation. The composer used various combinations of instruments to achieve the color he wanted.
Former Senator Henry J. Allen Dies In Wichita
Wichita, Kan., Jan. 17—(U.P.)—Henry J. Allen, former U. S. senator and a Republican leader in Kansas for a quarter of a century, died today at his Hillcrest home here. He was 81.
Mr. Allen is survived by his widow, Mrs. Elsie Allen, and a daughter, Mrs. Henrietta Holmes, who lives in England with her husband, who is a counsellor to U. S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas.
Mr. Allen, who also was a former governor of Kansas, was widely known as a newspaper publisher and editor at the time of his death and was an important stockholder in the Wichita Beacon.
Mr. Allen, who went to the U. S. senate to fill the unexpired term of the late Charles Curtis when the latter was elected vice-president under former president Herbert Hoover, was recognized as a spokesman for the White House.
Mr. Allen was appointed to the senate by the late U.S. Sen. Clyde M. Reed, then governor of Kansas.
Mr. Allen was a severe critic of President Roosevelt's New Deal. He engaged Sen. Elbert D. Thomas, D., Utah, in a series of debates in 1937 over Mr. Roosevelt's supreme court enlargement proposal.
Except for a sudden opposition by certain G.O.P. leaders, Mr. Allen might have been president of the United States. When the party chose the late president Warren G. Harding to head the ticket in 1920, the national committee sought a running mate from the West. Mr. Allen appeared certain to get the vice presidential nomination. But it finally went, instead to Calvin Coolidge.
During his career as a newspaperman, Mr. Allen was associated at various times with the Salina Republican, the Ottawa Herald, the Wichita Beacon, which he bought 1908 and directed to a place high among the state's dailies, the now defunct Omaha Bee, and the Topeka Journal.
In 1918 Mr. Allen was in France with the American Red Cross when he was nominated and elected governor. In 1926 he was head of the "university affoat," a world cruise for students. He was a trustee of Baker university and of the Roosevelt Memorial foundation.
Mr. Allen was defeated in his try for reelection to the senate, losing to George McGill, a Democrat.
The first important office Allen sought was a seat in congress from Kansas' second district. He ran twice and lost both times. In 1912 he lost as a candidate for governor on the pro-progressive side of the world war. Republican leaders got him elected governor in his absence. He served two terms.
In 1932 Mr. Allen was appointed as assistant to Charles G. Dawes, president of the Reconstruction Finance corporation. He interested himself in transportation problems and served as president of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence tide-water association.
In 1938 Mr. Allen attended the Pan-American conference at Lima, Peru, as an observer-correspondent for a newspaper syndicate.
Mr. Allen's oratorical abilities attracted attention and in 1928 he was called upon to direct the publicity work of the Republican national committee. It was during this time that he became a close friend of Mr. Hoover.
Mr. Allen was born in Pittsfield, Pa., Sept. 11, 1868, but was reared and educated in Kansas. He attended public schools and Baldwin university at Baldwin, and Washburn college at Topeka.