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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Jan. 4, 1954 Deadline Draws Near
'Small Items' Important To Lost-'n-Found Office
By TOM SHANNON
Lost your boxing gloves, slide rule, or paper-backed bosom novel? These are but a few of the many articles that students have lost this year and which have been turned into the campus agency which cares for homeless items of this sort.
Located in the student offices area on the basement (caferia) level of the Student Union, the campus lost and found service receives or returns between 25 and 50 such pieces of miscellany each week.
A large cabinet is bulging with misplaced textbooks, including numerous copies of "Greek Plays in Modern Translation" and lesser numbers of other books, including novels, some of them in the Spillane-Caudwell price range.
There is one set of keys which Lost and Found officials have been tempted to use on occasion as it includes: A key to a bank lock box; a key marked with a number and "chem", indicating it might possibly fit some door in Bailey chemical building; a door key; a set of car keys; a church key.
Class rings, rosaries, lighters, keys fraternity and sorority pins, ID cards empty billfolds, pens, and pencils would be in a fair sample of the articles in the "small items" drawer
Filling a smaller cabinet are various and assorted clothing items, including scarves, gloves in singles and pairs, coats of several descriptions, an athletic support, and a pair of men's gold gym trunks.
Two boxes are filled with eyeglasses of all sorts and descriptions. Most of them are in excellent condition, many of them have cases to match.
Members of the Independent Student association, the sponsoring organization, are scheduled to be on duty at every hour from 1 to 4 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays, and from 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. They process the boxes of material brought in from collection points over the campus and single items turned in by individuals.
If a lost article's owner can be determined, he is telephoned or a postal card is sent to his home. If not, the Lost and Found office provides a temporary home for it until the owner inquires and identifies it, or until, after a year, it is disposed of by bids, at an auction, through sale at the office or donation to charity.
Movies to Get Court Hearing
Washington—(U.P.)—Movie censorship was one of the chief issues before the Supreme court today as it ended a brief holiday recess and went back to work.
The question to be decided is whether it is an infringement of free speech for a state to ban a film on the ground that it tends to promote crime or to corrupt morals?
The justices will hear formal arguments about the middle of the week in two test cases based on the pictures "M" and "La Ronde." They planned to get in the mood this afternoon, however, by viewing a special showing of "M" in their conference room.
The picture, produced by Superior Films, Inc., is the story of a man prematurely dismissed from a mental hospital who is driven to kill small girls. Ohio banned it on the grounds it encouraged crime.
Tomorrow the court will see "La Ronde" (The Round), a French-language movie that shows a series of interlocking love affairs. Commercial Pictures Corp., the producer, concedes that the theme is "illicit love," but denies the film is immoral as New York censors claimed when they banned it.
In both test cases the producers argue that showing objectionable movies should be punished after an offense has been committed, not by censorship beforehand. The states say they have a constitutional right to use sufficient censorship to protect the public welfare.
Scientists say that continued research over the past 20 years has raised the average egg production per hen from one every three days to one every two days.
Martin Predicts New Tax Cuts
Washington —(U.P.)—House speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr., (R-Mass.) predicted today the Republicans will slash government spending enough to permit "some" new tax cuts this year.
These will be over and above the cuts that went into effect Jan. 1 when personal income taxes were reduced about 10 per cent and the excess profits tax was wiped out altogether, he said.
Rep. Martin said he could not predict "how much more" taxes might be cut, nor did he say where reductions would come.
But experts of the Treasury department and the House ways and means committee are putting the finishing touches on a proposed major overhaul of the tax system that would provide more than $1 billion in tax cuts.
This is still a long way from final congressional, or even administration approval. As the plan now stands, however, there would be substantial tax benefits for corporations, mothers who work people with heavy medical expenses, and fathers with income-earning dependents.
Rep. Daniel A. Reed (R-N.Y.), chairman of the ways and means committee, is expected to urge Congress to vote a sharp new slush in personal income taxes but this almost certainly would meet administration opposition.
Army Private Appeals For Higher Rank
Charlotte, N.C.—(U.P.)—An Army private asked in the U.S. Fourth District Court of Appeals today that he be either discharged or given the officer's rank he claimed was denied him as a former Communist.
Pvt Herbert L. Nelson, 27, charged he was inducted under the doctor's draft law last year and made an army dentist but was refused a commission because he was a Communist party member in 1941 and 1942.
Pvt. Nelson's appeal of a U.S. District court decision at Alexandria, Va., was scheduled to be heard to day in the first case before the Federal Appeals tribunal here. Named as appellee was Brig. Gen. Loyal Haynes, his commanding officer at Ft. Pickett, Va.
The appeals suit was heard by Chief Judge John J. Parker of Charlotte, Circuit Judge Morris A. Soper of Baltimore, Md., and Armstead M. Dobie of Charlottesville.
The army said in answer to Pvt. Nelson's suit that he was refused a commission because of his record of having been a subversive. Pvt. Nelson admitted in his suit that he was a member of the Communist party from November, 1941, to April, 1942.
Before that, he said in the suit, he was a member of the Young Communist League from 1937 to April, 1940, while a student at the University of Washington.
Panmunjom — (U,P)— The United Nations command started construction of two huge camps today to handle 22,000 anti-Red prisoners and insisted upon the prisoners' release Jan. 23.
UN Plans for PW Release
The army regulations challenged in Pvt. Nelson's suit provide that acknowledged present or past members of subversive groups may be tried by court martial, discharged for the good of the service, or placed in a "non-sensitive job."
UN Supreme Commander Gen. John F. Hull notified Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimayya, chairman of the Neutral Nations Repatriation commission, that the Allies would not permit the release date to be extended beyond the deadline fixed in the Korean armistice agreement.
"We shall not accept any other proposal which amends the Jan. 22 date, the last day upon which prisoners in Neutral Nations Repatriation commission custody can
The Battle of the Alamo, famed because of the rallying cry of the Texas Revolution, "Remember the Alamo," actually was a siege from Feb. 23 to March 6, 1836.
Alumnus Donates $1.000toHallFund
Dr. G. R. Duer of Marinette, Wis., has made his ninth annual $1,000 contribution to the University Endowment association, Irvin Younberg, secretary, reported today.
The ultimate goal of Dr. Duer, a KU alumnus, is to provide a fund for construction of a scholarship residence hall. However, to provide immediate assistance for worthy men students, $280 of each annual gift is used for fees scholarships.
The current holders of Duer fees scholarships are John E. Stephenson, college sophomore, and Marvin Knight, engineering freshman.
be denied their freedom," Mr Hull's letter said.
Gen. Thimayya's superior, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, and the communists object to the release of the anti-Red Chinese and North Koreans at 12:01 a.m. Jan. 23 because the long-delayed Korean political conference has not met to debate their fate.
Just before Gen. Thimayya entered a hut for Monday's commission meeting, he said if the UN and Communist commands fail to agree on the release date, "we'll have to devise some means of releasing them."
Indian correspondents, aware that Gen. Thimayya's statement conflicted with Mr. Nehru's views, pointed out this disagreement to Gen. Thimayya's civilian adviser.
At the conclusion of his 90-minute commission meeting, Gen. Thimayya walked to the newsmen's office and asked the man he wanted to clarify his statement.
Gen. Thimayya said that if both sides fail to agree on when the anti-Communists and unrepatriated Communist captives, including 21 Americans, will be released "we will have to decide what to do."
"If there is a wide difference, we will have to discuss what to do next." Gen. Thimayya said.
He made his first statement before reading Mr. Hull's long letter which blasted as "totally unacceptable" a commission report—signed by India and Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia—which
charged that UN-controlled "agents" in the anti-Communist compound caused the breakdown in "come home explanations."
The Indian general did not say whether Mr. Hull's letter or the commission meeting caused him to change his position.
His altered version left the situation more confused because he did not say who would "discuss" the problem and "decide what to do."
Mr. Hull's letter left no room for discussion about the release date, pointing out that the armistice called for it on Jan. 23 and that the UN would be ready to receive prisoners at that time.
South Korean officials have threatened to send ROK troops into action against Indian guards if the Indians try to stop them from freeing the prisoners when the deadline passes.
A four-year study has revealed that cows kept in comfort stalls produce more milk than those kept in tie-in chain stalls. The comfort stall is larger than the tie-in.
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