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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1948
Chinese Reds Only 60 Miles From Nanking
By UNITED PRESS
Chinese Communist vanguards outflanked Pengpu, last major bastion north of Nanking, and stabbed within 60 miles of the Nationalist capital itself today.
The Reds thrust south, then west to Mingkuang, 40 miles south of Pengpu, and threatened to cut Pengpu's only line of retreat to Nanking.
A semi-official source said Gen. Liu Shih, top Nationalist commander in the Pengpu area, is moving his headquarters from Pengpu, 165 miles north of Nanking, to Chuhsien, only 35 miles above the capital.
He was said to have left behin a military garrison with orders to fight to the last against Communist encirclement.
Chulaisen itself is not a good defense position, and it was believed Elu would fight only a delaying action there before falling back across the Yangtze, the last natural barrier to Nanking on the south bank of the river.
Paris—Egypt complained to the United Nations Security council that large forces of Israeli troops are attacking 1,500 to 2,000 Egyptian troops trapped at Faluja in southern Palestine. The charge was made as the council met to consider Israel's application for membership in the U.N. Britain asked for an indefinite delay in consideration of the application. France suggested a delay of a month.
Rome—The Communist-controlled Confederation of Labor ordered firemen and more than 1,500,000 other government workers to strike throughout Italy for 24 hours next night in protest against allegedly inadequate pay increases offered them. The strike will affect railways, mail, telegrams and local, state and government offices.
Berlin — The Russian-controlled press urged Soviet sector factory workers in Berlin to stage rallies protesting the destruction by French army engineers of two radio Berlin antennas to remove a hazard to airlift planes landing at a nearby field. The station was back on the air, but with a weaker signal.
Tokyo—E.C.A. Administrator Paul Hoffman said he had been misquoted by some newsmen in Shanghai regarding his attitude toward American aid to a Chinese coalition government, but he did not elaborate. In Shanghai, Hoffman said the United States might continue to aid China if a government truly representative of a majority of the people and pledged to a program respecting democratic principles were established. However, he said the U.S. would not go along if a Communist-cominated regime were set up.
San Jose—Costa Rican military headquarters said invasion forces, allegedly from Nicaragua, are abandoning positions in northwest Costa Rica, "almost without resistance."
Library Addition Nears Completion
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Workmen on the library addition are cutting through the west walls of the reserve and education rooms of the main building to provide access to the addition for those rooms. A new stairway in the addition eliminates the need for the one which connected the reserve and education rooms at the west end of the building. The old stairway has been removed.
An insulating roofing material has been poured over the roof of the east addition, E. O. Hollingsworth, superintendent of the construction company, said today. About two days of warm weather will be required to finish the same operation on the roof of the west addition.
Window panes are installed in the sub-basement of the west addition, permitting heating in that part of the building and enabling workmen to start interior finishing, Mr. Hollingsworth said.
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New Englanders Are Strongest Stock Harvard Anthropologists Believe
Washington—(UP)—Muscles—or the lack of them—may be a clue to a man's history.
Experts from Harvard university's department of anthropology reported these observations to the army after two years of measuring 105,000 soldiers:
New England soldiers are the strongest, while the weakest (physically) come from the South Atlantic states. Middle Atlantic states, like the New England region, contribute lots of "well-muscled types."
The Middle Atlantic states also provide the most fat men. (And officers generally are fatter than enlisted men.)
Soldiers from the Pacific states in general are well-balanced between fat and muscle. Mountain states army personnel are very often fat or a bit fat, although muscular.
Men from the West-North Central states tend to average build, while their neighbors slightly to the east show more heft and muscle.
New England and Middle Atlantic men are stronger, the study concluded, because more of them spring from Southern, Eastern and Central European stock.
Protestants, it reported, generally are thinner and less muscular than Catholics, while Jews are the fattest of all religious groups. This is explained by national extraction, the experts said.
Married men were found to be huskier than the unmarried, while moderately educated men are more strapping specimen than the poorer or better educated.
The study is aimed at getting better fitted army uniforms.
TNE's Raise Skull On KU Flagpole
Theta Nu Epsilon, outlawed national fraternity, raised a large plasterboard skull on a campus flagpole Thursday with the following verse:
Membership in the outlawed fraternity is grounds for automatic explosion from the University, L. C. Woodruff, dean of men, said. This is the first evidence of T.N.E. activity since Homecoming when highways on the outskirts of Lawrence were painted with large block letters.
"Merry Xmas, Mallett will scream and tear his hair, but T.N.E. will still be thair."
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Topeka High Alumni Will Hold Reunion, Dance Dec. 27
This will be the second such reunion of Topeka High school graduates that has been held since the war. Evans J. Francis, business junior, said they hoped to hold a reunion annually.
A reunion and semi-formal dance for all Topeka High school alumni will be held Monday, Dec. 27, at Lake Lunge, near Topeka.
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"It may be just Indian rumbo-jumbo," Mr. Fenenga said, "but it sure rained."
The sacred Indian rain-making outfit, possibly the only one of its kind still in existence, reputedly has been creating weather since at least 1820.
Indians claim that in addition to practically guaranteeing rain, it can be used to make winds blow, floods recede, dry beds swirl with water and call up or dissipate storms at will.
California Comes Up With An Indian Rain Formula
Berkley, Calif.—(UP)—An ancient Indian rain-making ritual has scientists scrambling for an explanation. It actually seems to work.
Archeologist Franklin Fenenga said the first two times he tried the rain-making "magic" he got terrific downpours—and during the worst California drought, too.
Mr. Fenenga, a University of California expert on Indian lore, got the rain-maker from the grandson of a tribal medicine man. Its parts still are in perfect working order. They include the tail of a beaver, a bag of snapdragon seeds, a bag of eagle down, a bag of dust, curiously shaped charm stones, quartz crystals, black pebbles, a dark-colored stibnite crystal and fossil fish vertebra.
"Then when I brought it back here to the university, drove into town in a downpour—also breaking a long dry spell."
The parts of the rain-maker, enclosed in a fawnskin bag, have special functions, and in varying combinations can be used to create practically any kind of weather—
"Of course, it's probably just a coincidence," Mr. Fenenga said, "but when the rain-maker was brought out of storage by the medicine man's grandson, it immediately began to rain. It was the first rain the Kern county region of California's central valley had in eight months.
Delay Meetings In Western Civ
Those students whose appointments were scheduled during the week of Dec. 6 to 10 should meet their proctors during the week of Jan. 3 to 7.
Western Civilization proctor appointments for the next two weeks have been postponed due to the Christmas holidays.
Those students whose appointments were scheduled during the week of Dec. 13 to 17 should meet their proctors during the week of Jan. 10 to 14.
Mr. Fenenga said that while there are many accounts of Indian rulers making methods and equipment, this is the first time a complete and authentic outfit has been obtained by archeologists.
or so the Indians insist. The dark pebbles produce winter rains, while the quartz crystals are for summer showers. The dust helps control floods.
The owner, a Kern county Indian, was able to give away the sacred ritual because he had completely abandoned the ancient Indian culture. His grandfather, a medicine man who died in 1942 at the age of 103, had made weather with it until his death. The outfit had been passed down from medicine man to medicine man for generations.
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