Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
53rd Year, No.27
Friday, Oct. 21, 1955.
92 Freshmen File Primary Election Petitions
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Ninety-two freshmen filed petitions for the freshmen primary election Oct. 26. A total of 29 are candidates for class officers, 22 for the ASC Senate, and 41 are running for the ASC House.
For secretary—Mary Leigh Beebe, Olathe; John Garrett, Pittsburg; Douglas McWilliams, Berkeley, Calif.; Tony Morrow, Kansas City, Mo.; Kenny Richardson, Overland Park.
For vice president—Dick Adam,
Emporia; Clark Burns, Salinas;
Herky Davenport, Kansas City, Mo.
Craig Haselwood, Wichita; Janis
Irvine, Stafford; Judith Ann Kopper,
Olathe; Jon E. Morrissey
Kansas City, Kan.; H. C. Palmer,
Atchison; Richard Turpin, Kansas
City, Mo.
For president—William A. Arendt;
Canton; Dan Casson, Topeka; Warren DeGober, Kansas City, Mo.; Bill Doty, Kansas City, Mo.; Harry Harrison, Prairie Village; Pat Little Wichita; Susie Poppe, Kansas City;
Kan.; Robert S. Ransom, Kansas City, Mo.; Gary Shields, Great Bend; Phil Stuart, Lawrence.
For treasurer—Jack Burton, Prairie
Village; William Albert Feitz,
Olathe; Gary G. Gruendel, Kansas
City, Kan.; Julius Lincoln, Topeka;
M art Muegel, St. Louis, Mo.
The candidates:
ASC Senate, men—Don Dunaway,
Mission; Lloyd Ferrell, Wichita;
John Garrett, Pittsburg; Bob Hamilton,
Lincoln; Mike Hayes, Lenit;
Martin Hiltner, Wichita; Richard Lewis, Bethany, Mo.; Duane Morris, Salina, Paul Motzkus, Russell; Tom Rost, Topeka; Dan Welchons, Hutchinson.
ASC Senate, women—Nancy Callahan, Cleveland Heights, Ohio Barbara Graviro, Prairie Village Anne Hesse, Bartlesville, Okla. Sue Hinger, Bonner Springs Betty Sue Kintigh, Olathe; Sylvia Shafter, Chanute; Rachel Swenson Kansas City, Kan.
ASC House of Representatives,
men—Ron Bevers, Wichita; Bob Billings, Russell; Dow Benow, Salina; Clark Burns, Salina; Cassion; Gene Ekiss, Wichita; Mitch Foster, Birmingham, Mich.; Bob Franklin, Topeka; David Mapes, Kansas City, Kan.; Dan Miller, Oberlin; Eugene Nelson, Phillipsburg; Laird Noller, Topeka; Vau Palmer, Independence; Len Parkinson, Scott City; Dick Patterson, Kansas City, Mo.; Bob Offill, Kansas City, Kan.; Gary Shank, Hiawatha; Dick Sharp, Kansas City, Kan.; Dave Sigourney, Kansas City, Mo.; Jerry Skinner, Topeka; Brent Stonebreaker, Overland Park; Judd Thierolf, Beloit
ASC House of Representatives
women—Jayne Allen, Topeka; Beth Cline, Wichita; Sharon Crawford, Coffeeville; Delores Eisele, Olathe; Marcia Fink, Topeka; Judy Van Fossen, Piper; Pat Florian, Kansas City, Mo.; Bev Gardner, Overland Park; Jeanne Gaston, Dearborn, Mich.; Winnie Haines, Atchison; Dee Miller, Salina; Nancy Parker, Bartlesville, Okla.; Barbara Rodd, Tulsa, Okla.; Dinah Walters; Arden Weston, Kansas City, Mo.; Sandra Wray, Kansas City, Kan.
ASC Senate, men. POGO—Ron Barta, Salina; John Kernwitz, Chapute; Lynn Miller, Dodge City.
ASC Senate, women, POGO—Susia Stout, Wichita.
ASC House of Representatives,
men, POGO-Marshall Crowther,
Salina; Clayton Durr, Eudora; Hulen
Jenkins, Kansas City, Kan.
K-State Votes Holiday If Kansas Loses
MANHATTAN-The Kansas State Student Governing Association assembly voted yesterday to take a holiday, Monday, Nov. 7, if the K-State football team wins the Kansas University football game Nov. 5, at Lawrence.
This indication of student opinion will be passed on to President James A. McCain as a recommendation.
The association also voted not to take the holiday if K-State drops the football game to Kansas
Traffic Deaths Now Total 454
TOPEKA —(U.P.) Deaths of four men in the last 24 hours boosted Kansas' 1955 traffic fatality toll to 454 today.
The State Highway Patrol said the figure compared with 484 on the same date last year.
Wilbur Snavely, 28, died at Concordia Thursday. He had been injured Wednesday when his gravel truck was hit by a passenger train at a rural crossing.
Each fatal accident involved a collision. Two men died when their cars slammed together at a country road intersection east of Larned Thursday. Killed instantly were David Crane, 28-year-old farmer, and Walter Hudson of Macksville.
In Kansas City, motorcycleist Arthur Vaughn, 24, of Bonner Springs, was killed in the collision of his machine with a truck Thursday. He became Kansas City's 11th traffic death victim of the year.
KANSAS—Generally fair this afternoon through Saturday. Cooler this afternoon and southeast and extreme east tonight. Warmer over most of state Saturday. Low tonight near 40 extreme northeast to 40s elsewhere. High Saturday around 80 southwest to 70s elsewhere.
Kansas has suffered 31 traffic deaths this month.
Weather
KU Chosen Over 2 Others As Olympic Fund Kickoff Site U.S. Official Says Reds Crossed Japan At Yalta
"According to Togo, the Russian government accepted the role as arbitrator in a peace between Japan and the United States.
TOKYO—(U.P.)—Russia double-crossed the Japanese in the spring of 1945 and went to the Yalta Conference secretly knowing Japan was willing to surrender to the Allies, one of the allied prosecutors in the Japanese War Criminal Trials said today.
In an exclusive interview with' United Press, this story was told by Roy L. Morgan, who was associate prosecutor during the trial of War Premier Hideki Tojo. Morgan was in charge of investigations for the international prosecution section.
"Japan's peace terms which Russia was to pass on to the United States were similar to the terms of the Potdam Declaration, with three exceptions. These exceptions were: The emperor system should be retained, there should be no allied occupation of Japan, and
"After deliberations and many discussions, it was decided by the group that since Russia had a neutrality pact with Japan which had two years to run and because of Russia's position in relation to the Allied powers, Russia should be approached as mediator.
"Shigenori Togo, foreign minister of Japan in the spring of 1945, discussed with me Japan's attempts to make peace in the spring of that year, after the big March 10, 11 and 12 raids on Japan," Mr. Morgan said.
(Tojo was sentenced to 20 years in prison where he died.)
"Realizing Japan's inability to carry on the war against the United States further," Mr. Morgan said, "Togo with other members of the cabinet met and decided to seek peace.
Russia Should Mediate
there should be no prosecution of Japanese leaders.
Japan Gets No Answer
JAPAN BOSS THIS
"Secret man who passed and
Japan got no answer from Russia
as to the progress of its mediation
efforts.
"Finally the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and the Japanese ambassador in Moscow was again contacted by Togo. Togo wanted to ascertain the developments of Japan's offer of peace.
"The reply to the Japanese ambassador in Moscow by the Russian government was 'Russia is now at war with Japan. Troops are crossing the Manchurian frontier."
"Togo told me that up until the end of the war. Russia—who had accepted the role of peacemaker—never advised Japan as to its mediation efforts.
"Togo indicated that Russia had played a most ignominious role in world history in accepting the role of peacemaker and then using the information to further their own policies—and finally attacking Japan which they knew already was defeated.
"It appears the Russians went to Yalta knowing Japan was ready to surrender. Their bargaining there with the Allies over a price for their participation in the war was carried on against this background.
"They had accepted Japan's offer to make peace, apparently kept it to themselves and capitalized on it for the Soviet government's benefit."
Those Guys Are K Club Pledges
PLEDGE FASHIONS—K-Club pledges from left are Lawrence W. Stroup of Topeka, track; Blaine F. Hollinger of Russell, track and basketball; and John E. Parker of Mission, track and basketball. All are juniors.
They are required to dress this way only while on the campus, and will be displayed at half time of the KU-SMU football game tomorrow afternoon.
They include athletes who earned letters in basketball, track, baseball, tennis and golf.
Each of the 29 athletes who won letters for the first time last spring is wearing articles of clothing and carrying some equipment from the sport in which they earned their letter.
Those oddly-dressed characters walking around the campus today are K Club initiates going through pledging activities.
Most of the athletes, said they sort out of outfits as if they walk around the campus that they wear.
Some typical comments by students:
Robert M. Nicholson, Maize sophomore, "Hurray, the South will rise again."
Sandra Smith, Lawrence freshman, "I just didn't know what to think. Thought maybe someone had cracked up."
Remember To Exchange ID's
Remember Hogland to Exchange ID's
Forest Hogland, Kansas City
Mo. senior chairman of ASC seat
in the football team and students
bring their ID cards and $1 to
the information booth to exchange for
the Kansas-SMU football game from
2 to 5 p.m. today and from 8:30 to
11 a.m. tomorrow.
By proclamation of President Eisenhower, Saturday is National Olympic Day across the nation, but the center of interest will be in Lawrence as a Life magazine representative will be present to take photographs for next week's issue.
KU won over two cities as the top kickoff site for two reasons. The Lawrence Junior Chamber of Commerce collected over $2,000 for the fund last year. This was considerably more than any other city in its class, said Nathan Harris, Concordia, 1955 co-chairman of the JayCee Olympic Fund committee.
KU Has Six Entries
Also KU has six potential 1956 Olympic team participants. They will be introduced to the fans at half time by Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, KU basketball coach and member of the 1952 USA Olympic basketball coaching staff. The six all track men, are Thomas R. Blair, Osborne senior, sprints; Dwight A. Frame, Wichita senior, distance; William H. Neider, Lawrence senior, shot put; Leslie M. Bitner, Kansas City, Kan., senior javelin; Alfred A. Oerter, New Hyde Park, N.Y., sophomore, discus; and Kent L. Floere Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, hop-step-jump.
Also Wes Santee of Ashland, '53, one of Kansas' all-time greats, will be on hand for the half time ceremony. Santee will participate in a cross-country dual track meet between the Quantico, Va., Marines and KU, at 1:20 p.m. Saturday. The race will end in the stadium prior to the game kickoff.
On Olympics Theme
All half time activities will be geared to the Olympic and U.S. theme. The pep clubs will present a card section display that will include a Jayhawk, the Olympic Shield, and an American flag.
Richard C. Clarkson of Lawrence, '54, has been contracted by Life to take pictures of the Olympic Fund activities.
The Kansas marching band will play numbers with an American theme. Their final formation will be a tribute to the United States, James Miller, Merriam senior and ASC pep and rallies committee chairman, said. Miller added thers will be a card practice for all the pep organizations at 5 p.m. today in the stadium.
The program will open a nation-wide fund raising drive to raise the estimated $1,000,000 needed to send the nation's top amateur athletes to the winter Olympics next January at Cortina A'Ampazzo, Italy, and to the summer games the following November and December at Melbourne, Australia.
$4,000 Granted For Army Research
A research project at the University has been authorized by the Picatinyn Arsenal of U.S. Army Ordnance. Approximately $4,000 was granted.
Dr. William E. McEwen, associate professor of chemistry, directs the project, "Synthesis of Polymeric Rocket Propellants." Researchers will prepare high molecular-weight materials that contain explosive groupings.
Two graduate students, Bruce Melaas of Des Moines, Iowa, and Donald Nielsen of Elmhurst, Ill., will assist Dr. McEwen.