UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1948
Chinese Reds Drive For Key Railroad City
Nanking, Nov. 15—(UP)—Chinese Communist forces stabbed within five miles of Suchow's main airfield today and smashed through to the center of Suhsien, key to Suchow's only rail link with the Nationalist capital of Nanking. Suchow is a major rail hub, loss o f which would open the way for a drive to Nanking.
The Nationalist government claimed a major victory in a tank-supported counter-attack in the Nienchuang area. 33 miles east of Sichow. But the Communist thrust into Suhisien threatened to isolate the government forces and expose them to attack from the rear.
All civil air flights to the airfield southeast of Suchow were suspended and air force officials conceded they were prepared to evacuate the field at a moment's notice. A smaller airfield north of Suchow still was operating, however.
Thus Suchow, 200 miles north of Nanking, appeared in greater peril than ever. Should the Communists encircle the city, they might rush on toward Nanking itself without waiting to complete the conquest of the gateway city.
A government communique admitted that the communists have broken through the outer defenses of Suhien, 45 miles south of Suchow on the Suchow-Nanking railway. Reliable sources said fighting was raging in Suhien's railway station and the town's plight was critical.
The National Defense ministry reported that two Nationalist army groups have hemmed in the Communists from two sides in the Nienchuang district east of Suchow.
In addition to tanks, the Nationalist government also was throwing its entire first-line air strength into the battle for Suchow. Bombaden B-17s, twin-engined mosquito fighter-bombers and P-51 Mustang fighters roared in and out of Nanking airfield on a round-the-clock basis for bombing and strafing attacks.
Reinforced government columns also were reported to have smashed three Communist columns near Tamiao, 10 miles east of Suchow on the railway to Nienchuang. A government spokesman said 4,000 Communists were killed or wounded and 3,000 captured.
It was believed the battle Nienchuang, 33 miles east of Suchow, has entered the decisive stage. Its fate may determine that of Suchow. Altogether, 400,000 Nationalist and Communist troops were locked in battle there.
Faculty Members Visit K-State
Five faculty members of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information attended the annual editor's conference at Kansas State college Nov 13.
They are Elmer F. Beth; professor; Emil L. Telfel and Walter Ewert; assistant professors; Charles G. Pearson, instructor; and T. C. Ryther, superintendent of the University Press.
The visitors to the conference inspected the television equipment and saw a television production at Kansas State. The television station, WOXBV, is the first in Kansas.
They were guests of Kansas State college at a luncheon in the journalism building. They were also guests of the college at the K-State-K.U. football game.
Girl Born To Gillispie's
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Gillispie
12A Sunnyside, are the parents of a daughter, born Nov. 12 in Falls City, Neb. Mr. Gillispie is a pharmacist at Watkins Memorial hospital and a graduate of the University
Apt Observation By Paper Boy
The carriers of the University Daily Kansan try heroically to deliver their armful of papers to the box in front of Watson library, in spite of the news-hungry student who claw papers from their arms en route.
A new carrier, evidently from the farm, stood back to survey the mad scramble for papers.
"Gawd, jest like sloppin' th' hawes," he said in awed tones.
England Hails Birth Of Prince
United Press Correspondent
London. Nov. 15—(UP)—Princess Elizabeth rested comfortably at Buckingham palace today after the birth of her first son, a prince who may some day be king, and all Britain threw off its austere reserve for a rousing celebration.
The prince, second in line to the British throne after his mother, arrived at 9:14 p.m. (3:14 p.m. C.S.T.) yesterday. Elizabeth, 22, was in labor less than two hours, and the delivery was understood to have been relatively easy.
A bulletin this morning from the palace, signed by two royal physicians who delivered the baby, said:
Her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth had some sleep during the night. Her condition and that of the infant prince is satisfactory."
Buckingham palace announced shortly after 1 p.m. today that the prince weighed 7 lbs., 6 ounces at birth. No mention of the baby's weight had been made in the first two bulletins, but newspaper reports had said the father, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, first had been told his son weighed just over 8 pounds.
The royal physicians, Sir William Gilliatt and Sir John Weir, who stayed at the palace during the night, left directly after their morning bulletin was issued. Their departure was taken as a sign that they were eminently satisfied with the condition of both the princess and her son.
Several hundred persons gathered this morning before the palace where 10,000 massed last night when the birth was imminent and shouted their regard for the members of the royal family. Of Philip they roared in unison, "For he's a jolly good fellow."
The birth was celebrated from Land's end to John O'Groats with the pealing of church bells, while British ships in the seven seas cannonaded the respects of the royal fleet.
Jerry Osborne prepared to wipe off pie-faced M. Dale Arvey while I. L. Baird (left center) and Charles Smith show their ivories.
'Truth Or Consequences' Winner Throws Pie At Zoology Instructor
Jere Osborne, College junior, fulfilled a wish that many students have long had, the desire to throw a slushy cocoanut cream pie in the face of one of their instructors.
He was given this opportunity during the initiation of 34 new members into the Zoology club, Nov. 11. As winner of a "Truth or Consequences" game, he was given the chance to $ \dagger $
game, he was given the chance to toss a pie into the features of M. Dale Arvey, assistant instructor of zoology,
Shown in another part of this issue are the results. Mr. Arvey is the pie-covered individual at the left while Osborne is on the right. Standing in the background are Charles Smith, vice-president of the group, and Irwin L. Baird, graduate student. Baird and Smith are assistant instructors in zoology.
The purpose of the group is to promote better relations between members of the faculty and students, Smith said. The organization also has programs which bring out fine points of the science of zoology and provides a club for persons interested
Geologist Says US Getting Smaller; May Disappear-In 300,000 Years
New York—(UP)—A war department geologist said today that the United States is getting smaller by about 6,400 acres a year. Erosion along the 52,000 miles of the country's shorelines is causing the shrinkage.
Another geologist, Dr.C. W.Wolfe Boston university, offered a new theory on how mountains were
A little arithmetic, based on those figures, shows that if the erosion continues the United States theoretically would cease to exist in about 300,000 years. ◎
In some areas," he said, "the loss is general and excessive. For example, the Chesapeake Bay area, where entire islands have disappeared by erosion within the memory of man, and where the unprotected shores of both developed and agricultural land are now being lost at a rate as high as 15 feet per year."
The geologist, Dr. Martin A. Mason, of the war department's beach erosion board, however, made no such predictions. He made a plea at the 61st meeting of the Geological Society of America that something be done to stop the erosion.
The erosion over a period of record, he said, is causing "an average annual loss of land of the United States equivalent to about a one-foot strip out our entire 52,000 miles of shoreline, a loss in land area of approximately 6,400 acres per year."
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formed. He admitted that many theories had been offered, but none proved to the satisfaction of "seasoned geologists."
"The high continent of Africa with its rift zone," he said, "may constitute the roof of a blister. The fact that the northern half of the Pacific is 3,500 feet deeper than the southern may be accounted for by the assumption of a complete blister collarse in the north."
Dr. Wolfe believes that enormous "blisters" on the face of the earth may have resulted in the formation of mountains. Such blisters, he said, may have been caused by heat phenomena in the earth, with big "bubbles" being formed. The blisters, he theorized, broke, leaving the mountains and mountain ranges.
There have been some theories advanced that the earth was once oar-shared, and that the top end broke off the earth to form the moon, leaving the Pacific basin.
The game, which Osborne won, was a part of the informal initiation of the new members. The new members were divided into groups with the winner of each group competing in the finals. All questions were on zoology. Also on the program was a movie on evolution.
Faculty Recital At 8 p.m. Today
Mrs. Janet Turk, pianist, and W.
Thomas Marrocco, violinist, will present a joint recital at 8 p.m.
today in Frank Strong auditorium.
Mrs. Turk is an instructor in piano and Mr. Marrocco is associate professor of violin.
Mrs. Turk is a graduate of the University, and received a master of music degree in 1940. She has done advanced study in piano under Ernest Hutchinson, and before coming to the University in 1946 was on the faculty of Mary Hardin Baylor and Lindenwood colleges.
Professor Marrocco also came to the University in 1946. He was graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Naples in 1930, and received his master of music degree from the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, in 1940.
Darby Elected To Research Board
The recital is open to the public
Election of Harry Darby, Kansas City, Kansas indusrialist, engineer and financier, to the board of directors of the University of Kansas Research foundation was announced today by Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
The Kansas Citian takes the places of Ernest W. Reid of New York City, a chemist and vice president of the Corn Products Refining Co. Dr. Walter Cross of the Kansas City, Mo., testing laboratories will serve another two-year term on the board.
UN Suggests Peace Talks West Says No
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Top representatives of the United States, Britain and France decided today to meet tomorrow in Paris to discuss how best to reject the United Nation's appeal for a Big Four peace conference.
The U.N. appeal came from Herbert Evatt of Australia, president of the general assembly, and Trygve Lie. U.N. secretary-general. They urged the three Western powers to meet with Russia to try to work out a truce in the East-West cold war.
The United States and Britain want to reject the appeal. France is not so certain. And all three must consider world opinion, especially how any rejection would react on the small powers within the U.N. The British cabinet was meeting to discuss the problem today.
U. S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall, British Minister of State Hector McNeil and French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman will meet in the latter's office tomorrow to take the fateful decision.
The U.N. general assembly, meet time, ordered an immediate debate of the long-postponed question of Palestine. The 58-nation political committee will begin the debate later today, but neither the United States nor Britain is likely to speak until tomorrow.
Israel was expected to reject the order from Dr. Ralph Bunch, acting Palestine mediator, to give up the territory it won in the Negev area of southern Palestine to permit it to be turned into a demilitarized no man's land pending a final Palestine solution.
Athens: Liberal leader Themistocles Sofoulis agreed to serve again as premier after former Foreign Minister Constantin Tsaldari found himself unable to complete a new cabinet.
Operetta Cast To Be Picked
Gerald M. Carney, musical director of the guild, said that tryouts for the cast will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, November 17, in Frank Strong auditorium.
The Gondoliers, Gilbert and Sulli-
van operetta, will be presented by the K.U. Operaetta Guild, February 8 to 11. in Fraser theater.
Tryouts for the chorus will be held from 4 to 5 p.m., Thursday, November 18, in studio 10, Hoch auditorium Students can pick up the operetta scores at the music education office, 35 Frank Strong hall. The results of the tryouts will be announced, Friday, November 19.
"The Gondoliers," a two-act musical comedy, has its setting in Vienna about 1750, and is a parody democracy, according to Mr. Carney.
The plot is based on a romantic search for the missing heir to the throne of a monarchy.
Don Dixon, assistant professor of speech is the stage director for the production.
"The Gondoliers" is unusual in that it has no lead parts, although there are 11 predominant characters, Mr. Carney said.
The K.U.器械馆 guild is sponsored by Phi Mu Alpha, men's music and Sigma Alpha Iota and Mu Phil Baptism sororities, women's music groups.
Organized last winter, the guild made its debut by presenting the first all-student operetta, "The Mickado," by Gilbert and Sullivan.
Mr. Carney said that "there is a place for light opera" on our campus. He believes there are many operetta fans among the students and Lawrence townspeople.
Harry Spencer, education senior is the student chairman of the guild.
Nichols Is Ill With Flu
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the chancellor, was unable to attend work today. Mrs. Nichols said he was ill with influenza.