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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1949
Western Nations Protest Seizure Of US Citizens
Washington. Dec. I—(U.P.)The state department, with the moral backing of American public opinion and at least 12 Western nations, today arranged new diplomatic maneuvers to help two Americans who have been interred by Chinese Communists for 13 months.
Two other Americans, held by the North Korean regime are covered by the protest of the 12 nations. The state department said that Albert Willis, Brooklyn, and Alfred T. Meschter, Kinderhook, N.Y., are held in Korea. Chinese Communists hold William C. Smith, Long Beach, Calif., and Elmer C. Bender, Cincinnati.
The 12 protesting countries are as follows: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Egypt, France, India, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Great Britain and the Phillipines.
Dean Acheson, secretary of state, announced on Nov. 31 that he was asking 30 nations, including Russia, to join the U.S. in protesting the Reds' mistreatment of American representatives in China. Russia and four of its satellites ignored the protest.
They disappeared into Communist territory near Tsingtao Oct. 19, 1948, while on a routine training flight in a U. S. navy plane. Since then the United States has sent six formal notes to Communist authorities with no marked success.
The latest message was the first to go to the foreign minister himself. It had to be mailed to Mr. Chou because O. Edmund Clubb, U. S. cusul general has been unable to get an audience with top Communists in Peiping. It is not known whether the note actually reached the foreign minister.
The state department also is harassed by the problem of Consul General Angus Ward and his staff at Mukden. The Communists have ordered them out of China, but had not arranged transportation.
The China Policy association demanded in New York that Congress investigate the department's Far Eastern division
Rhyne To Speak At Convocation
Charles S. Rhyne will address students Wednesday, Dec. 7, in a School of Law convocation.
Mr. Rhyne is the general counsel of the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers, Washington, D.C. He holds degrees from Duke and George Washington universities.
Tryouts Today For Radio Play
Tryouts for a one-act play will be held at 4 p.m. today in Fraser theater. The play is an adaptation of a radio play so only the voices of the actors will be used. There are parts for about 10 men and women. The play will be presented on December 14.
A report from the new Nationalist "war capital" of Chengtu quoted telegraphic authorities as saying Chungkang changed hands peacefully when advance Communist units crossed the Yangtze river to help maintain order.
Hong Kong, Dec. 1—(U.P.)—Thousands of Chinese Communist troops marched into Chungkwing today to take over the abandoned Nationalist capital from Communist underground forces.
Red Troops Occupy Capital
All Nationalist troops, including the garrison commander, Gen. Yang San, have evacuated Chungking. This left a temporary vacuum, but tentative looting was halted by underground forces that came into the open.
Four municipal representatives, including the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, crossed the Yangtze to greet the Communist forces massed on the south bank.
Available reports said the Communist commander informed the delegation that his troops had taken over the former Nationalist capital. The commander called upon Chung-king's residents to carry on their normal activities.
Reports from Chengtu said that Generalissimo Chiang was preparing to resume an active role as head of the Nationalist government. Sources close to Li Tsung-Jen, acting president, said that he had rejected Generalissimo Chiang's request to relinguish his post as head of the government and will continue to call himself the acting president.
Some Communist units crossed the river Wednesday afternoon and occupied Cholungpo airfield outside Chungking. Other units took over the adjacent suburb of Fushingkwan, highest point in Chungking's environs, from where Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek directed wartime operations against the Japanese.
The width of the United States ships is determined by the Panama Canal, and the height by the Brooklyn bridge.
Request Music To Be Played But No Jazz Or Symphonies
Semi-classical music, show tunes, and dance standards will be played over the public address system between noon and 1 p.m. and 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. each day in the Union.
Students may request any records in these categories by telling a member of the Student Union activities announcements committee in the Union activities office during program hours. Records will be selected from the record files and from the Union activities collection in the organization's office.
"We are not going to either extreme in music," said Sue Sperry, chairman of the committee. "We won't play jazz or current songs which won't last. And we don't plan to play heavy symphonies or operas."
While sorting the records in its library Wednesday night, the announcement committee collected two dozen records to send to Wadsworth veterans home and hospital in Leavenworth and to Winter General hospital in Topeka.
The committee is looking for a record of the University Alma Mater. Anyone knowing of one is asked to call Miss Sperry.
Members of the committee are Robert Wolff, business senior; Donald Clark and Nancy Gemmill, College juniors; David Arthurs, Priscilla Barron, Dorothy Becker, William Howell, and Clarence Hughes, College sophomores; and Martha Jane Shaw and Robert M. Smith, College freshmen.
was a big grease spot here recently.
A Westbond Santa Fe passenger train sheared the last 4 feet from a seal-footed train and pounds of shortening. The impact of the crash scattered shortening in every direction.
C. B. Hinthorn, station agent, narrowly escaped getting a lump of the flying lard in his face. He was in the doorway of the station when the collision occurred, and had to duck fast. Several cans of the shortening battered against the building.
Garden City Has Grease,
But It's All Shortening
Garden City — (U.P.) — Main street
has a big grease gut here recently.
One can shattered the windshield of an automobile. C. K. Sharpless, driver of the truck, was not injured.
Dallas, Texas—(U.P.)-Civil Aeronautics board experts have begun investigating the crash of a DC-6 American airliner in which 28 persons were killed at Love field here. The plane, going from New York to Mexico City, crashed and burned early Tuesday as it came in for a landing with two engines dead.
Probe Begins In Dallas Crash With 28 Dead
Most of the 18 survivors were in the forward part of the cabin that broke open just behind the wings giving them an escape exit. Nine of the 18 remained in Dallas hospitals overnight. Among those who lived were Capt. Laurenis (Tommy Claude and two fellowcrewmen) the hostesses, Margaret Van Bibber, 24, Madison, N. J.; and Josephine Cadena, San Antonio died with the 26 passengers.
Eighteen of the 46 persons aboard escaped alive but 28 were trapped by a sweeping mass of flame. Three of the bodies still are unidentified. Robert W. Crisp, chairman of the C.A.B. hearing division, was on the way to take personal charge of the investigation. He was accompanied by William K. Andrews, director of the C.A.B. bureau of safety investigation.
Captain Claude, 52, Fort Worth,
said he had feathered the outside
left propeller when the engine went
bad over Altheimer, Ark., and
brought the big plane, 315 miles to
Dallas, with three engines. As he
started to land, the pilot said, the
outside right engine also went dead.
The left wing dropped and there
was not enough power to gain alti-
tude.
Captain Claude called out, "She's a goner." Then the plane ripped into two hangars and another building, setting off fires that destroyed them. "After that," said Captain Claude. "I have no clear recollection of anything that happened, except I dived through the forward baggage hatch, through the fire and started crawling away."
When the first engine went out, the airliner was 40 miles southeast of Little Rock, 10 minutes flying time from an airport where the main north-south runway is 5,125 feet long.
American airlines said in an official statement that "when only one engine goes out, it is not considered necessary to land immediately. The pilot . . ordinarily lands at American airlines-approved fields."
The statement said Captain Claude had a choice of either Memphis or Dallas and "he showed good judgment in proceeding to Dallas."
Is Carrie Nation Back In Wichita?
Police said today "five or six" retail liquor dealers have discovered small holes shot in the plate glass paneling of their shops. Air rifle pellets were found inside all the stores where damage was reported. Ballistics test failed to reveal any clue.
Wichita.—(U.P.)—There's a modern Carrie Nation at work in Wichita. Liquor dealers report the unidentified counterpart of the famous prohibition uses an air rifle instead of a hachet, but the air rifle is effective.
Police said the modern Carrier Nation usually strikes late at night. Whoever is firing the shots is finding a good target, one police officer observed. Since prohibition was repealed in Kansas in the spring most liquor dealers have used plate glass extensively to display their wares.
Pratt County Group To Distribute Jayhawkers
Fifteen members of the Fratt county group decided to send Jayhawkers to six schools in their county and asked the group chairman, Eddie R. Maag, College sophomore to choose committees to plan school activities.
Jan Williams, College freshman,
was elected newspaper correspondent.
The group plans to send counselors to Pratt high school for half a day before Christmas vacation.
Charles Laughton Will Read Selections From Shakespeare
Charles Laughton, well-known stage and screen actor, will present a "one-man show" at 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, in Hoch auditorium.
YWCA Bazaar Starts Friday
Handmade articles and homecooked foods will be sold Friday and Saturday at the annual Y. W.C.A. Christmas bazaar in Henly House, 1236 Oread street.
Hand-knitted and hand-sewn goods and foods for the bazaar will be contributed by University women. Members of the Young Women's Christian association will collect the food contributions from the organized houses on the days of the sale.
'False Gods' Is Next Play
While "False Gods," the next University Players production, is set in Egypt, its basis as a present day controversy so strong that the play his never been given professionally in the United States.
The play will be given from Tuesday, Dec. 6, through Friday, Dec. 9, in Fraser theater. Admission will be by tickets obtained by presenting activity books at the ticket office in Green hall. All seats will be reserved.
"False Gods" was presented at the University in 1936, and was held over two nights by popular demand.
The play tells of a priest who exposes the falsity of the Egyption idols when the woman he loves is to be offered as a sacrifice to the Nile god. He defies the false gods and shows the people that the priests hold all the power.
Dean Carr To Speak In Winfield Dec.5
T. DeWitt Carr, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, will speak Monday, Dec. 5, to a general assembly of high school students at Winfield in the morning, and to the Chamber of Commerce at noon. At the conclusion of the Chamber of Commerce talk Don Fambrough, freshman football coach, will show movies of the Kansas-Missouri football game.
Dean Carr will be the guest of Harry Janicke, '24, Winfield lawyer, during his visit.
Mr. Laughton, who won an Academy award for his performance in "Henry VIII," will give readings selected from authors ranging from James Thurber to Shakespeare. Exactly what his program will be is not known as he never decides until he walks onto the stage. It will also include characterizations from Charles Dickens, Thomas Wolfe, and the Bible.
Tickets for the performance are on sale from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the business office in Strong hall and at the Round Corner Drug company, eighth and Massachusetts streets. Prices are $1.22, $1.83, and $2.44. Mr. Laughton is being sponsored by Student Union activities, that each year brings a concert, lecturer, or other entertainer to the University.
He has played in many American and British films, including "The Big Clock," "Mutiny on the Bounty," "The Barrettes of Wimpole Street," "The Paradise Case," "Les Miserables," and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."
At the beginning of his stage and screen career in London, Mr. Laughton, who is married to Elsa Lancaster, appeared in many plays in London. One of them, "Payment D'ferred," brought him to New York. When it was made into a film, he starred in it with Ray Millane.
This is the first time Mr. Laughton has toured the country as a "one-man show." He is giving performances in 50 American cities, including Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, and Buffalo. He will appear in Kansas City Friday, Dec. 9.
The Quill club initiated 16 members Wednesday night. Thomas G. Sturgeon, instructor in English, is the new faculty adviser. It was decided the club would meet at 7 p.m. every Wednesday.
Quill Club Initiates 16 New Members
It was announced that the national Quill club convention will be Friday, Dec. 2, and Saturday, Dec. 3, at Kansas State College. Plans were made for getting transportation to the convention for some of the members of the Quill club are invited, Jane Schmidt, College junior and president of the club, said.
To protect the life of the President and to suppress counterfeiters are the two statutory duties of the U.S. Secret Service.
Leadership In College Activities Is Part Of Education, SAM Members Told
Get on your feet and practice leadership in University activities, Charles M. Corsaut, director of the state employment service, told members of the Society for the Advancement of Management Tuesday.
"College should develop more than just a student," Mr. Corsault said. "It should develop leadership. When a person has a chance to develop leadership in worthwhile activities in college he should jump at the chance. Take part in any discussion that you can. Learn to give and take."
Mr. Corsaut, who was basketball coach at Kansas State college for 10 years, told of hearing the late Fiorello H. LaGuardia speak at Manhattan. He said Mr. LaGuardia told students there that, "If there should be an issue arise on this campus, within 30 minutes I would be on one side or the other."
"Kansas should make its own
He said that industries had moved and were continuing to move to Kansas from the East coast states. Industries are moving to Kansas because of its central location, its many lakes, and the large amount of raw materials developed and undeveloped, within the state.
Mr. Corsaut said, "We are the leaders of tomorrow. The responsibility of leadership is on our shoulders. During the war Kansas had the greatest output for each man hour of any state in the Union."
products from its raw materials"
Mr. Corsaut said. "We send wheat out of the state for $2.50 a bushel and buy back the products of that wheat at $108 a bushel. We send crude oil out of the state for $6.50 a barrel and buy the products for $1,000."
He advised students who were choosing careers to "Look over the field of employment. See where there is a need and let that need guide you in choosing your career. Last year there were 9,000 vacancies for lawyers through death and retirement; 36,000 students were graduated from law schools."
Archery Club Has Target Practice
A practice round of target practice was held at the meeting of the Archery club Wednesday evening in Robinson annex.
After the shoot the memberscussed point of aim.
The next regular meeting will be held Wed., Dec. 7 from 4 to 6 p.m. in Robinson annex.