UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY,OCTOBER 19,1948
PAGE EIGHT
London Quartet Shows Skill, Understanding
By NORMA HUNSINGER
The London String quartet gave its second recital here Monday night in Frank Strong auditorium. Its first appearance was in Hoch auditorium in 1932 as part of the major concert series; Monday's performance was a part of the chamber music series.
The program of three Beethoven quartets, although unusually heavy was performed with technical competence and deep understanding of the whole of the composer's works.
Technique, balance and tonal quality of the group was superb. Attacks were precise, yet expressive, and at times the broad full tones made it seem there were more than four instruments. The line and sweep that make for playing of virtuoso calben was outstanding in the more powerful passages.
Individually, they sometimes seemed to sacrifice music for effect. However, the playing was spontaneous and communicative, each musician possesses pronounced technical skill. Laurent Halleux, second violinist, was perhaps a little reserved, but C. Warwick-Evans, cellist who founded the quartet, gave the depth and strength to the final effect of the whole group.
Also outstanding was the fourth movement of the G major quartet. It was sensitively performed; the repetition of theme which builds into an incisive climax was given remarkable expression and drive.
The second movement of the "Quartet in E flat" was outstanding in that the changes in mood and rhythm from the sweet and melodic to the strong and full were handled smoothly and with emotional power.
The entire F major quartet was characterized by a more mature touch and was performed with inner intensity and integration. The quiet and melodic second movement was poetically expressed and tonally charming.
Socialist Group Visits Hill Houses
Reports on speaker's visits to organized houses were given at the regular meeting of the "Students for Norman Thomas" club Monday night.
The visits were arranged so that the Socialist party viewpoint could be explained to students. Each visit is divided into two parts, the domestic planks of the Socialist platform and the foreign planks. Each speaker discusses one phase. A question and answer period follows.
Students Will Hear City Manager Speak
L. P. Cookingham, city manager of Kansas City, Mo., will talk to members of the Techniques of Municipal Administration class at 3 p.m. Thursday in Frank Strong Annex F. He will discuss how a city manager works with the city council.
The course in Techniques of Municipal Administration was started this year and is open to graduate students. It is designed primarily for "graduate students who desire ultimately to qualify for the profession of city manager," said E. O. Stene, associate professor of political science who teaches the course
Elder Gunter, city manager of Junction City, told the class Oct. 15 of the first-year problems of a city manager.
Admiral Denfeld Arrives Thursday
Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, chief of naval operations, and speaker at the all-student convocation Friday, will arrive here by plane with his wife Thursday morning. Capt. Howard A. Yeager, executive assistant and aide, and his wife, will arrive with the Denfelds.
The Admiral's party, along with Chancellor and Mrs. Deane W. Maltott, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bailey, Salina, will be dinner guests of Dean and Mrs. DeWitt Carr Thursday evening.
Friday morning the Admiral will tour the campus, inspect the military students, and be presented to the 30 "five-term" navy officers attending the University. "Five-term" officers are regulars who on assignment are bringing their education to a par with other officers who have completed Annapolis or N.R.O.T.C. programs.
Admiral Denfeld's party will be guests at an invitation dinner Friday in the English room of the Union. Chancellor Malott will host at the dinner. The party will also be guests at a luncheon Saturday in the Kansas room of the Union.
They will see the Homecoming football game from the University's official box. He and Mrs. Denfeld will leave for Washington Saturday evening or Sunday morning. The Yeagers will go to Salina with the Baileyts for a week's visit with Mrs. Yeager's parents.
Flash Fire Hatchos Chicks From Over-Aged Eggs
Minot, N. D. —(UP)—Two visitors to the city dump here gathered up 70 baby chicks when a pile of over-aged eggs were hatched by the warmth from a nearby trash fire.
Italian High Schools Operate Like US Colleges
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Colleges and universities in the United States are run like high schools in Italy, according to Aldo G. Allioti, engineering graduate student from Rome.
Aliotti gave the first talk Monday of a series sponsored by the University U.N.E.S.C.O. council in observance of United Nations week.
baquer Shirazi, engineering sophomore from Bombay, India, will speak at 8 o'clock tonight in the Kansan room of the Union. His tonic is "Religions of Indin."
tops is is Italian. Allotti said that in Italy "students are free to miss as many classes as they wish.
"No roll is taken and no shotgun quizzes are given. The only exams come at the end of the year." Aliotti explained.
Europeans dress like Americans,
He added that American students are more sociable than those in Europe, "where students do not have so many acquaintanceships and social clubs are rare." Fees are also low, averaging about $10 a year. However, the average salary of a professor is about $40 a month, Aliotti explained.
"If anyone saw a girl wearing jeans with shirt tails flapping, he would probably call the hosjital," he laughed.
but no girl would think of wearing jeans on the street, Aliotti said.
"Europe has yet to be blessed with milkshakes, popcorn, and hotdogs," Aliotti said. "And anyone ordering milk in a restaurant will be met with a sad smile and a shake of the head. Everyone will think he is ill."
In a question period following his talk Alotti said that he believed that the United Nations "is just another League of Nations because it is too artificial and is based on force and nationalism."
However, European food is different from that eaten by Americans.
He also said that when he left Italy there were 26 parties in the country and "the political confusion was acute.
"The government does not use actual force to encourage voting." Aliotti explained. "However, anyone not voting may have a passport denied him for five years."
Texas City Hit By Explosion A Second Time
Texas City, Oct. 19—(UP)—A butane pipeline explosion which sent a spectacular wall of flame over 14 automobiles left at least four persons dead and 19 injured today in Texas City, still jittery over a series of waterfront blasts which killed more than 400 persons in 1947.
Monday night's blast occurred near the Stone oil refinery. The automobiles were lined up, waiting for a switch engine to shunt a string of cars across a railroad crossing.
Several of the injured were burned so critically that physicians feared for their lives.
Fifty feet from the highway, the high-pressure pipeline burst without warning, sending a single sheet of flame across the road, enveloping the automobiles like a blast from a giant's blow torch.
Not until switchmen broke the train could motorists on the opposite side reach the stricken passengers.
The searing flames floated across a vacant lot and burned itself out, leaving behind its 23 victims roasting in their automobiles.
There they found automobiles in flames with passengers fighting with burned hands to open red-hot automobile doors and escape. The air was filled with the screams of the injured.
Only the fact that the sheet of flame died over an empty stretch of ground prevented greater damage or loss of life.
Had the flames gone in another direction or reached oil or gasoline storage tanks, the city might have been swept by a series of blasts similar to those of April 16 and 17, 1947, when a cargo of nitrates exploded aboard the freighter Grand-camp. The explosion set off a chain of fires that left more than 400 dead and destroyed property worth millions of dollars.
Monday night's accident occurred inside the city limits and just one half mile west of the Monsanto Chemical company's plant, which was the hardest hit in the 1947 disaster.
Texas City Police Chief William L. Ladish believed a spark set off the blast. It could have been a cigarette ash, a spark from the exhaust pipe of some passing car, possibly a bit of coal from the switch engine, or even a stray flame from one of the many gas torches that dot the oilfields nearby.
Rooms Are Rented, But Not Completed
A 56-room apartment building is being constructed at 1725 Massachusetts street.
Before anyone gets any ideas, however, the rooms are all rented even though the building will not be finished until February.
P. F. Gough, contractor, said that the building will be two stories high and will contain 10 five-room apartments and six one-bedroom apartments.
No students of the University have rented apartments, Mr. Gough said.
Kansan Board Elects Members
Ten new members were elected to fill vacancies on the Kansan board at a meeting board Monday night.
The new members are; William E. Beck, Eleanor Lorraine Bradford, Fred P. Kiewit, Maurice C. Lungren, Billy F. Mayer, Orin L. Strobel, Don L. Tennant, and John F. Wheeler, journalism seniors, Anna Mary Murphy, College senior, and Doni Dan D. Waldron, journal junior.
Candidates for membership on the Kansan board, which directs the publication of the University Daily Kansan, are nominated by a committee of the board.
Paul E. Warner, business manager, and James L. Robinson, editor-inn-chief of the University Daily Kansan are the investigating committee. Emil L. Telfel, assistant professor of journalism, and Lee S. Cole, instructor in journalism, will be the faculty advisors to the investigating committee.
The board also voted to appoint a committee to investigate the possibilities of paying staff members of the University Daily Kansan, or increasing the academic credit allowed for working on the paper.
The garage, located at 5th and Mississippi streets, cost approximately $53,000. A bond issue provided $50,000 and the remainder came from street department funds.
The city garage and the ball park stadium, two 1948 Lawrence building projects, have been completed and accepted by the city.
Lawrence Has New Stadium, Garage
The stadium cost $26,000 of the $50,000 bond issue voted and approved by the 1947 state legislature
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A report to the council on the Palestine situation was marked by a bitter exchange between Dr. Ralph Bunche, acting Palestine mediator, and Audrey Eban, Israeli representative.
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The order was issued as dispatches from Palestine said that Israel for-ores had pushed to within five miles of the big Egypt strengthhold of Gaza in southern Palestine and had brought the city under their guns.
Bob Karnes, student representative
Paris, Oct. 19—(UP)—The United Nations security council today ordered both Arabs and Jews to accept an immediate cease-fire in the six-day-old battle of the Negev.
--and what a delicate
UN Orders Half To War In Egypt By Arabs-Jews
Mr. Eban charged that Mr. Bunche had not given the security council a complete and accurate report of the situation that led to the outbreak of fighting Oct. 15.
Mr. Eban claimed that Israel accepted and Egypt rejected the truce commission's proposal for United Nations supervision of Israeli supply convoys to Jewish settlements in the Negev.
The fighting started when Egyptian forces attacked a Jewish compound last Friday. Israeli sources claimed their attack was in retaliation. Mr. Bunche in his report said the major blame for the fighting was on the Jews because they were too well prepared.
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