University Daily Kansan
Friday, Jan. 15. 1954
West to Ignore Soviet Delays On Big 4 Talks
Paris — (U.P.) The three Western powers agreed today not to allow Soviet stubbornness on "minor points" to be used as a Kremlin excuse for delaying the scheduled Jan. 25 Berlin Big Four conference.
The official predicted that the United States, Britain and France later today will drop a demand that the Foreign Ministers hold three out of every four sessions in West Berlin and the fourth in the eastern sector of the divided city.
But the source said the difficulty of making such an offer by itself was that the Russians then could use the conciliatory gesture as a basis for demanding new concessions.
The West is prepared to accept Soviet High Commissioner Sergei A. Dengin's demand for holding two meetings in the western and two in the eastern sectors.
"They might use the question of the organization of the Secretariat or some other minor issue to hang their hats on and try to talk for weeks, if we are not careful," the source said.
"We shall concede the maximum to show our good faith," a high Allied official said.
Western military commandants held four meetings with Dengin in an effort to determine where the Foreign Ministers will hold their conference.
Aero Engineering Professor Named
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James E. Tiedemann has been appointed assistant professor of aeronautical engineering, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy announced yesterday.
Around the World
Social Security Plan Backed
Washington — (U.P.) President Eisenhower's plan to boost old-age social security payments and extend coverage to 10 million more Americans drew strong bi-partisan support in Congress today.
Republicans and Democrats alike urged quick approval of the changes in the social security system recommended by the President yesterday. Rep. Daniel A. Reed (R-N.Y.), who has bucked the administration on some issues, promptly introduced legislation to carry out the program.
The generally favorable reaction to the social security recommendations contrasted sharply to the reception Mr. Eisenhower's farm and labor proposals got earlier this week. Argument over those two issues is still raging, some of it within the President's own party.
Rep. Reed said his Ways and Means committee would begin hearings on the social security recommendations early next month and
asserted "it is vital that we act with speed."
Defense Treaty OK'd
Seoul, Korea — (U.P.) South Korea's National assembly unanimously ratified treaty to a mutual defense treaty which commits the United States to act against any renewed Red aggression in Korea.
Defense Treaty OK'd
127 members of the legislature present arose when Chairman P. H. Shinicky called for an open voting on the treaty ratification.
Finstein Kin Arrested
Pittsburg, Calif. —(U.F.)—Bernardo C. Einstein, 23-year-old grandson of Albert Einstein, and a 21-year-old sailor buddy who be sentenced today for breaking into a soft drink vending machine and taking 60 cents.
Einstein and John E. Marvin Jr., of San Diego pleaded guilty yesterday to the petty theft charge and were freed on $250 bond each pending sentencing by District Judge Michael Gatto.
Warren Takes Post
Washington — (U.P.)— Chief Justice Earl Warren was elected and installed chancellor of the Smithsonian institution today.
mr. Warren succeeds former Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson as the 14th chancellor in the institution's 108-year history. Mr. Warren will preside over the institution's 14-member board of regents which transacts the national museum's formal business.
Tackle Bricker Plan
Washington — (U.P.)-Republican leaders turned on steam today in an effort to work out a compromise on the Bricker amendment that will prove acceptable to the administration.
Senators Homer Ferguson (R-Mich.) and John W. Bricker (R-Ohio) called a meeting with Att. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr., to try to work out some common ground on the proposal which is designed to limit the President's treaty-making powers.
KU Scientists Develop Fly That's Resistant to DDT
Fites that are resistant to DDT act differently than their susceptible distant relatives, according to two KU scientists.
The behavioral difference is at the easily observed pupation stage, when the fly is resting and changing from larva to adult insect, according to Vesperia et al. (2004), professor of entomology, and Preson F. Hutter, graduate student.
Working with fruit flies because of their rapid multiplication. Dr. Sokal and Hunter developed a strain resistant to DDT and another strain that was easily poisoned by the insecticide.
Moslem Group's Property Taken
Both strains were fed on a nutrient containing DDT. It was observed that the resistant flies tended to pupate at the edge of the vial containing the nutrient, that
This work, part of a larger study of hereditary factors of resistance to insecticides, was financed by grants from the Office of Naval Research, the Army, and KU research funds.
some even tried to climb the "walls" of the vial. The susceptible files remained in the center of the medium
"Ever since it was found that DDT did not kill all flies and left us with a thriving fly population untouched by it, scientists have been pushing fundamental and applied research to learn 'why' and 'what to do about it', Dr. Charles D. Michener, entomology department chairman, said.
Cairo —(U,P)— President Mohammed Nagibu's military government today ordered confiscation of the property of the fanatic Moslem Brotherhood, dissolved Wednesday for treason.
An official announcement informing the Egyptian people for the first time of the ban on the brotherhood also furnished details of the government charge that the Moslem group had plotted "to overthrow the existing regime in the name of religion."
The communique charged that the brotherhood tried to inflame the police against the Army, while seeking at the same time to set up secret cells within both organizations.
It charged also that leaders of the Moslem group conspired against the government with British officials—especially with Minister to Cairo Michael Creswell and Trevor
K.C. Motorists Fill 'Em Up In Gasoline War
Kansas City, Mo. —(U.P.)- Joyful Kansas City motorists filled their gasoline tanks at bargain prices today as the area's service stations cut and recut their prices.
The filling stations were caught in a two-way squeeze; not only was the usual margin of profit per gallon trimmed almost to the vanishing point, but they had so much business they had to put on extra tas pumpers.
The lowest price reported early today was 15.9 cents for gas at an independent station, and four cents more per gallon for premium gas.
The price war, described as the most drastic ever in this region, began along U.S. 40, leading into Kansas City from the east. It started when a new chain station (Site of company) cut its prices to stimulate business, one source said.
The war gained impetus yesterday when Standard Oil company (N.J.) cut its tank wagon prices 6.6 cents per gallon for regular and 4.6 cents for ethyl.
A local Skelley Oil company distributor, said his firm would follow Standard's lead. "We have no alternative." he said.
Motorists drew added comfort from a statement by the man who may have started the whole thing.
"I think its going to continue for some time," said Edwin Field, western district manager for Site Oil. "These price wars just happen. Once they start, they spread like a forest fire."
Evans, oriental secretary of the embassy here.
No comment was available immediately from the embassy, but a British spokesman dismissed similar charged Wednesday as "complete nonsense."
Floor wax applied to rods in clothes closets will permit hangers to slide back and forth readily.
Congressmen Are Underpaid Says Salary Commission
Washington—(U.P.)—President Dwight D. Eisenhower's commission said today that Congressmen are "grossly underpaid" and should vote themselves a $12,500 pay raise to $27,500 a year.
It also unanimously recommendede pay hikes of $10,000 each for the vice president and Speaker of the House and salary boosts ranging from $14,500 to $14,500 a year for "overworked and poorly paid" federal judges.
The 18-man commission estimated cin
The proposed revisions in pay scales
The commission also recommended "adequate"—meaning bigger—expense allowances for Congressmen and that Congress consider the advisability of providing the vice president with a suitable official residence.
| | Present Sal. | Proposed | Increased |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Senate and House members ... | 15,000* | 27,500 | 12,500 |
| Chief Justice ... | 25,500 | 40,000 | 14,500 |
| Assoc. Supreme Court Justices ... | 25,000 | 39,500 | 14,500 |
| Justices of Courts of Appeals & Claims ... | 17,500 | 30,500 | 13,000 |
| Tax, Customs and U.S. Dist. Courts ... | 15,000 | 25,500 | 12,500 |
(* Includes $2,500 in expenses)
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FLIGHT TRAINING PROGRAM
Is Being Offered for Spring Semester,'54
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