UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1954
Freighter Hit By Nationalist Shells In Yantgze Delta
Hong Kong, Jan. 9—(U.P)—A Chinese Nationalist warship fired 30 to 40 shells into the blockade-running American freighter Flying Arrow today, setting it afire and causing it to anchor in an unseaworthy condition.
The Flying Arrow was attacked while attempting to run the Nationalist blockade into Shanghai with a 6,000-ton cargo of inflammable oils, chemicals, cotton and Jute valued at $10 million. Capt. David Jones reported fire raged for three hours in one of his after holds but was finally extinguished with the help of the patrolling British sloop Black Swan.
There were no reports of casualties among the 33 crew members and 12 passengers, including two women, aboard the damaged ship.
Captain Jones reported his ship was hit by a cargo type vessel converted into a mine layer which was laying mines in the Yangtze estuary. The warship used armor piercing shells of three-inch caliber and 20 and 40 millimeters, he said.
The attack was made about 15 miles off the Chinese coast. Capt Jones immediately radiowed his owners, the Isbrandsen line of New York City, asking for help to reach Communist-held Shanghai. Jones indicated his ship had been rendered unseaworthy by the attack and might be unable to make it back to Hong Kong, from where the Flying Arrow sailed the past Saturday.
While awaiting instructions Jones anchored his damaged ship near a fairway buoy off the Yangtze delta in approximately the same spot where he was shellled.
The Black Swan, after helping to extinguish the fire, went back on patrol. Informants here said the British warship's commander, Capt. A. D Jay, declined to provide naval protection against the shelling or further attack.
In New York, Isbbrandt son lawyer James W. Ryan said the captain's message indicated the ship was so badly damaged it could not make the return voyage to Hong Kong and must put into the nearest port "which is Shanghai." Ryan said he would demand that the U.S. navy send American warships to aid the Flying Arrow reach Shanghai.
"We demand that the navy and secretary of state perform their statutory duty under navy regulations to save this ship and crew and American passengers by furnishing them immediate access to the nearest safe port, which is Shanghai," Ryan said.
Damage to the steering engine combined with holes just above the water line, would put the Flying Arrow in danger of sinking or going aground if any sort of a storm blew up in the China sea.
Reports from Capt. Jones indicated the Flying Arrow was attacked in an area considered to be part of the high seas and outside the jurisdiction of Chinese territorial waters. Capt. Jones said that he was in the process of anchoring at a Fairway buoy outside Shanghai when the gunboat started firing without warning.
He said the gunboat signalled him not to enter Shanghai and shortly thereafter started firing with three-inch arm piercing shells as well as 20 and 40 millimeter shells.
City Manager Talks To Student Trainees
Elder Gunter, city manager of Junction City, lectured today to the city manager internes and trainees at the University.
Twenty graduate students are taking special courses and training in city manager administration which is sponsored by the bureau of housing. They have held an all-day lecture and discussion with the city manager students.
Mr. Gunter was a guest at a luncheon in the Union given by the group.
Paganini Quartet To Appear Today
The University Chamber Music series will present the Paganini string quartet at 8 p.m. today in Strong auditorium.
The program follows:
"Quartet in G Minor (The Horseman)" (Haydn); "Quartet in A Minor, No. 2" (Piston); and "Quartet in F Major" (Ravel).
Journal Prints Students' Work
Nine students of the School of Law were contributors to the University of Kansas section of the recent issue of the Journal of the Bar association of the State of Kansas.
The School of Law is allotted a 20-page section in each issue of the journal. It is published four times a year.
J. Gleenn Hahn and Paul B. Watson, third year law students, and Wiliard A. Burton, Jr., second year law student, commented in the journal on "Elements of Negotiability by Contract."
Other students who contributed case notes to the journal are: Lloyd M. Faust, second year law student, "Torts, Light as Trespass or Nuisance, Plaintiff's Sensitive Use of Land as Defense," H. M. Wright, second year law student, "Negligence, Liability of Independent Tor Feesors, Burden of Froof, Where Causes Inconceivable of Proof," Marshall C. Hill, third year law student, "Bills and Notes, Banks and Banking, Forged Instruments of Liability of Bank 'to Depositor and Pavee.'"
A. T. Dealy, second year law student,
"Partnership, Possession of
Partnership Property, Theory of
Partnership Entity," Patrick H.
Htischen, second year law student,
"Internal Revenue, Family Partnerships,
Status of Partners for Income Tax purposes," and Jess W.
Van Ert, third year law student,
"Infants, Torts, Rights to Recover
for Prenatal Injuries."
Members of the student editorial board for the journal are: Robert H. Bingham, third year law student, editor-in-chief; Jesse H. Foster, Jr., second year law student, and M. M. Unruh, third year law student, associate editors. Faculty advisors are: M. C. Slough, associate professor of law, and James Barron, assistant professor of law.
Officers for the spring semester were elected Thursday at the General Semantics club meeting.
Club Elects Officers
Agnes B. Lilley, graduate student, was elected president and Myrta J. Anderson, College senior was reelected secretary and treasurer. No president was elected. Philip Persky, graduate student is the retiring president.
The next meeting of the club will be Thursday, Jan. 12.
Kansas has more cattle than 43 other states.
Photo by Gagliardo-Clarkson.
Clyde Lovellette, Jayhawker sophomore scoring sensation, receives congratulations from students after scoring 29 points in the 56 to 50 victory over the Oklahoma Sooners.
Hiccups And Starvation Run Race For Man's Life
Glendale—(U.P.)—Just as he has for the past 18 months, emaciated Jack O'Leary, hiccupped once a second—and slowly started to death. "It seems to be a race between the $\textcircled{2}$"
"It seems to be a race between the hiccups and starvation," his mother, Mrs. Margaret O'Leary, said. "We're praying and hoping that someone, somehow, can save Jack."
His weight has dropped from 120 to 80 since he first started hiccups June 13, 1949, after he suffered a burst appendix and peritonitis. Doctors said then the infection affected nerves and muscles controlling his diaphragm to bring on the hiccups.
Mrs. O'Leary said her family had exhausted its savings in futile attempts to cure her son.
A hypnotist brought partial relief to the onetime grocery store assistant manager. But even when Jack was under the hypnotic spell, he hiccupped almost inaudibly.
His stomach will retain food only for five minutes, and "O'Leary said we sure need to get myself wrapped around a square meal and be able to hold it down."
"This is getting pretty tiresome," he said weakly.
"Someone suggested taking Jack to Arizona, but we haven't the money
to do that," she said, "or pay for much more medical attention, either."
Group Will Discuss Political Science
A meeting of political science and personnel administration majors and graduate students will be held at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Kansas room of the Union.
Sponsored by Pi Sigma Alpha, honorary political science fraternity, the meeting will feature three short talks on the topic, "Putting Political Science to Use."
The speakers will be Deane Postlethwaite, '47, instructor at Baker university, Baldwin; Newell Jenkins, '47, city manager of Slater, Mo.; and Raymond Harbaugh, graduate student in political science.
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Three soloists to play the University band at its Winter conven- tion, who are also right to right. Philip McCarty plays, with fine arts, Jeanne Peck, senior in
fine arts, Bradfield, sophomore in fine arts. Mecx, saxony phone soloist, will play "Beautiful Colorado" (DeLuca). He is the student of Raymond Zepp, instructor of band. Miss Peck, cornet soloist, will play "Concert Etude" (Goedicke). She is the学生 of Leo
Horacek, instructor of music education. Miss Bradfield, piano soloist, is a student of Dean D. M. Swarthout. She will play "Piano Concerto (Grieg).
Scholarship Applications Due March 1
The University Graduate school announces the following scholarships and fellowships for the academic year. 1950-51.
University scholarships, which allow the student $400 for the academic year and a sum equal to the incidental fee that he must pay; Edwin Emory Slosson scholarship in science, which allows from $300 to $600 for the academic year; University fellowship, which donate $600 to $700 with an additional sum equal to the incidental fee the student must pay; Kansas Industrial fellowships, which during half-time service during the two semesters range from $1000 to $1200, depending upon the training and capabilities of the holder; the H. P. Cady fellowship, which is worth from $600 to $900 annually and is open to students in the field of chemistry; the Olin Templin fellowship, which is worth $500 for the academic year and is open to students in the field of philosophy; the Selden Whitcomb fellowship is open to students interested in the study of comparative literature and is worth from $500 to $1000; Fellowships in Human Relations, the two of which are worth $1200 to $1500 each and are open to qualified students who desire training in the techniques of establishing harmonious relationships and understanding among individuals and groups, and Graduate assistantships, in which amounts vary from $600 to $1200 for the academic year, depending upon the amount of service rendered.
Applications and all supporting materials must reach the office of the Dean of the Graduate school on or before March 1, 1950. Applicants will be notified of decisions April 1, 1950.
All scholarships and fellowships are awarded competitively, and are for the fall and spring semesters of the academic year. Scholars and fellows must pay the regular fees of the University.
Dr. Ellis B. Stoffer, dean of the University, and Dr. G. Baley Price, professor of mathematics, have been chosen editors of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical society, a national publication issued six times a year.
Dr. Stouffer is the managing editor, and Dr. Price is his assistant. Students are ranked among the more than 4,000 mathematicians belonging to the society.
Formerly issued monthly, the Bulletin has been split into the present publication and the proceedings of the A.M.S., each published bi-monthly. The society puts out two other journals. Dean Stouffer is beginning his sixth year as an editor of the Bulletin. Professor Price is starting a three-year term. He has just completed three and one half years as associate secretary of the American Mathematical society, a position now filled by a full-time executive secretary.
Detroit, Jan. 9- (U.P.) -The C.I.O.
United Auto workers may set a deadline today for a strike against Chrysler corporation.
About 500 union officers voted unanimously Sunday to set a strike deadline to enforce demands for $100 monthly pensions. Chrysler spokesmen argue that the current contract does not expire until August, and, therefore, discussion of pensions are not legal until that time.
Auto Workers May Set Strike Deadline
However, U.A.W. representatives claim a provision that wage issues may be opened for discussion at any time. They say that pensions are included under classification of wages.
Stouffer, Price Are Editors