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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.
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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.