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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1953)
Fifty-third year of publication \<>M Mb MV l NIVEKSITY OF OREGON; EUGENE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 5053 NUMBER Toll Over 1400 In Storm Wake Latest failles in the flooded area* of Europe placed the death toll at I40fi Monday night and estimates were still going up. I he three nation break down lists 443 dead In Britain, 941 In Holland and Vi. In Belgium. </Pj Holland, Belgium and Eng land continue to count their dead in the worst storm and flood dam age Western Europe has seen in several hundred years. The death toll stood at 948 Monday night and was expected to go above the 1000 mark before the hurricane-lashed tides have receded. Seven Americans are among the victims and seven more are miss ing. VYor.st hit is Holland with 485 dead as centuries old dikes gave way to the biggest flood disaster the Dutch have suffered in five centuries of the struggle to keep their below-sea-level country dry. The toll in Britain is 441, while 21 are dead in Belgium. Belgium's coastal dikes, dunes and roads 1 have been badly hit. A British freighter has reached the scene off Newfoundland where a four-engined British troop trans- I port plane is believed to have crashed. It has reported seeing no sign of wreckage or of the 39 per- ; sons aboard the plane. The freight- i er, the Woodward, is continuing to search the storm swept seas for survivors. Much of the western world is [ working on aid for the flooded Europeans, The armed forces of| several nations are joining in res cue work while the American Red Cross has put its resources at the call of the flood and storm vic tims. In Germany freak weather claimed six lives during the week end. Two died under walls col lapsed by high winds and four were drowned when their automobile I plunged off a bridge in a storm. ! Blizzards swept south Germany and several villages were cut off by snowdrifts. WORLD RESOUNDS AS... Eisenhower Cites Change in Policy Of) Reaction to President Dwight Eisenhower's first state of I the union message has been rapid both at home and abroad much 1 of it centering on the decision to lift restrictions on Chinese Nation alist raids on Red China. Republicans in general are call ing the speech ‘‘magnificent" and "tremendous.” While some Demo crats have praise for the speech, several are taking sharp issue with the new policy towards the Chiang Kai-Shek regime on Formosa. Senators John Sparkman of Ala bama and Estes Kefauver of Ten nessee expressed fear that the president's decision means an ex tension of the Korean war. Eisenhower charted, during his 57 minute address, a “new firm foreign policy”, asked the legis lators to declare void any "secret understanding" of the past “which let aggressive communism enslave free peoples" and served notice that he is ordering the 7th fleet to stop protecting the Chinese Com munists from the Nationalists on Formosa. The president did not elaborate on his mention of ‘‘secret deals", but members of congress assumed he was referring to concessions made to the Soviet Union at the Yalta and Potsdam conferences. The rest of “the free world" which Eisenhower declared must "wrest the initiative from the ag gressor and win the cold war” was expressing concern over the mes sage. In London, Prime Minister Win-" ston Churchill has announced Brit ish Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden will make a statement on Formosa today. LYLE NELSON Who Runs the UO? Lyle M. Nelson, director of public services, was appointed in 1947 after serving with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Nelson graduated from the University of Oregon in 1942 with a bachelor of arts degree. During his senior year on the campus, Nelson was the editor of uiumm tion. After graduation he served as acting director of the University news bureau for nearly a year. As director of public services, Nelson is responsible for the opera tion of the news bureau, photo bu reau and the University editor's offices. He is a member of the board of deans, the assembly com mittee, scholarship and finance committee, and serves in an advis ory capacity to all fund raising groups on campus. The director of public services makes arrangements for all cam pus visitors, arranges lectures and serves in a liaison capacity be tw'een the administration and the public. Nelson is the first director of public services on the campus. The function of the director had pre viously been performed by other members of the president’s staff. And Then Harry Said .. . , 7 ;' . r'KSd'‘nt a" ■ Harrj K N>"hurn ,lis<l,s« <amp.is affairs with .Jim Miller (left), presi de nt of Hale Kane, and Tom Shepherd, Inter-dormitory council president, during the IIX sponsored reception for the Xewburns Sunday. 6 King of Hearts Finalists Chosen By W Cabinet Social Hour Planned Monday for Winners Six finalists who will vie foi the title of King of Hearts were selected Monday, accord ing to Xorma Hamilton, V sophomore cabinet chairman. Finalists are Alan Babb. I beta Chi; F.d Kenney, Phi Kappa Psi; Jim Livesay, Car son hall; Ron Lyman, Kappa Alpha Theta; Jim Miller, Pi Beta Phi; and Jim Owens, Sig ma Chi. The six finalists will be the guests of honor at a social hour planned for the V soph cab inet meeting next Monday. Luncheon will be served the finalists and they should be at Oerlingcr hall at noon, Miss Hamilton added. Pictures of the finalists will be placed in the SU and co-op soon. Voting will take place at the time each ticket to the Heart Hop is purchased. r* i.. Mef Soprano to Sing Wednesday Evening Metropolitan soprano Victoria de los Angeles, recently returned operatic and concert engagements in Europe and South America," Will! be presented in a concert Wednesday at S p.m. in McArthur court by the Eugene civic music association. Born in Barcelona in 1924, Miss De los Angeles was brought up a that city and attended the Conservatorio del Liceo. At twelty she made her concert debut in Barcelona and subsequently appeared in operas and concerts in Spain and Portugal. In 1947 Sii». won, by unanimous decision, first prize in the International Singing contest in Geneva. a Coming to the United States in 1950, Miss De los Angeles gave a recital in Carnegie hall and sang three leading roles in the Metropolitan, opera before returning to Euiope. Wednesday's appearance is in conjunction with Miss De los Angel* a’ second coast-to-coast tour of the United States. What Do You Think... ... of Student Government? Arlo Giles, graduate student in sociology, said: “Student government exposes the student to the basic democratic processes, and to this extent it has an educative value. However, too frequently student leaders aren't given enough responsibility! The area of student government must be enlarged considerable if vve. are to derive full benefit from it.” Korean Gl Bill Vets Must Certify by Feb. 6 aii veterans wno are attending the University under the Korean GI bill must complete their month ly certification for January before Feb. 6. Failure to complete this certification before the deadline will result in delayed checks for the veterans, according to the of fice of Clifford L. Constance, reg istrar. Riegger Will Give Concert-Lecture “Some Aspects of Modernism in Music” will be the topic of a con cert-lecture to be presented by American composer Wallingford Riegger in the Student Union ball room today at 1 p.m. The program is a feature of the Festival of Con temporary Arts currently being held on the campus. Riegger has been well known in musical circles both here and abroad since the publication of his first compositions in the early 1920's. His preparation for a mu sical career included three years of study in Berlin and several ! years of teaching on the music ' faculty at Drake university. He is 1 a graduate of the Institute of Mu sical Art in New York city. In 1924 he became the first na tive American to receive the Eliz abeth Sprague Coolidge prize. The j award was given him for his mu- i sical setting of Heat's "La belle dame sans nierci.” The following year the Mus. D. degree was con- ; ferred on him by the Cincinnati j Conservatory, and in 1933, the League of Composers gave him & special publication award. Riegger has served as an advis ory member of the Yaddo Musks festival, a member of the execu tive boards of both the American, Composers Alliance and the Pan American Association of Compos ers. He has also been a member of the editorial board for both "New Music Editions" and “New Music Recordings.” In May of 1948 he became president of the Urn* l States section of the International Society for Contemporary Mu.-io.