Page 4 University Daily Kansan Thursday, Nov. 20, 1952
Truman 'Very Happy' Over Ike's POW Stand
Washington — (U.P.) — President Truman said today he is "very happy" that President-elect Eisenhower expressed approval of the administration's stand against forcible repatriation of Communist prisoners in Korea.
Mr. Truman told a news conference—his first since Sept. 25. 25 that the Korean prisoner situation was worse than in Tuesday's White House meeting.
He said one purpose of the Tuesday meeting and one of his present objectives is to let "the world know that this country is a unified organization."
Mr. Truman said he will be glad to meet again with Gen. Eisenhower before Jan. 20 if the President-elect desires it. Mr. Truman said he will be glad to see Gen. Eisenhower at any time.
As Mr. Truman held the news conference, diplomatic officials predicted that Gen. Eisenhower's forthcoming trip to Korea also will convince him the Truman administration was right about keeping Chinese Nationalist troops out of the fighting.
"I was very happy to see that Gen. Eisenhower had told Sen. Alexander) Wiley (R.-Wis.) that he was in accord with the policy on prisoners of war in Korea," Mr. Truman said.
Mr. Truman also said he hopes that Gen. Eisenhower will appoint some of his cabinet members before Jan. 20 so that they can find out about their job before they take office.
The President said that he will turn the government over to the new Republican administration as a going concern in an orderly turn-over. He said this had never been done before and that he is establishing a precedent.
Gen. Eisenhower's feelings on the Communist prisoner issue encouraged some diplomats that he would allow him to see the Chinese Nationalist troops issue.
A number of Republican Congressmen and some military officers in the Far East have been urging Gen. Eisenhower to reverse the administration policy, and accept Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's offer to send some of his troops from Formosa to the Korean battlefront.
But diplomats here said they are "confident" that Gen. Eisenhower's on-the-spot investigation will show him there are several "overriding" objections to using Nationalist troops in Korea.
GOP Margin Rises In State Senate
Topeka — (U.P.)— Unofficial election returns which showed the 1953 Kansas legislature adding one senator to the top-heavy Republican majority of two years ago were confirmed today by Secretary of State Paul R. Shanah.
Five Democrats and 35 Republicans will represent the people in the State senate, and the line-up in the House will be 105 Republics and 20 Democrats, the same as in 1951.
The 20 Democrat representatives are from widely scattered points, but an except one of the five Democratic candidates come from South and Eastern Kansas.
C. L. Huxman, Sublette, brother of Democrat former Gov. Walter Huxman, will serve his third Senate term from the big 37th district in the Southwest corner.
Harry Says Adlai Is Party's Head
Washington — (U.P.) President Truman said today he will continue to have influence in the Democratic party but he considers Gov. Adalai E. Stevenson to be the party's head.
Mr. Truman said that Gov. Stevenson, unsuccessful Democratic candidate for president, will visit him here about Dec. 1.
The President told a news conference it is too soon after the election for him to give his ideas on the main factors responsible for the Republican victory. Mr. Trumman said he will be ready to answer that question in about six months.
Mr. Truman also said that he will not be ready to announce his future plans until Jan. 21—the day after he turns over the White House *to* Dwight D. Eisenhower. But he said he is not going to do anything for awhile but take life easy.
He said that he will have neither an apartment nor an office in Washington. He has said previously he intends to go back to his home at Independence, Mo.
FBI Nabs First 3 In Car Parts Ring
Washington — (U.P.)—Arraignment was scheduled in New York, Baltimore and here today for three men nabbed by the FBI in what J. Edgar Hoover called the "first break" in a widespread stolen auto parts ring.
The Justice department, which announced the arrests last night said the men were charged with interstate transportation of stolen property involving receipt, sale and transportation of stolen auto parts.
Sidney Gabriel Bergman, 36, The Bronx, N.Y., was arrested in Baltimore. George Bernard Goldenberg, 56, Los Angeles, was arrested in a New York hotel.
Famous Philosopher Dies at Italy Home
Naples, Italy — (U.P.) - Benedetto Croce, world-famous philosopher and statesman, died at his home here today after a brief illness. He was 86.
Croce's death came at 3:50 (CST) am. from a kidney infection which followed an attack of influenza. His wife, Donna Adele, and their four daughters were with him.
New York—(U.F.)=Red-haired TV actress Rosemary Murphy, 25, paid a $60 fine yesterday after admitming that she was responsible for two of four parking tickets police put on her automobile. Se said the other two probably were her father's.
Ambassador Murphy Unable
To Answer Parking Fine Court
"Who is your father," the magistrate asked. "We'll have to get him in here."
"I'm afraid he won't be able to get here for a couple of years," she replied. "You see, he's the United States Ambassador to Japan."
Washington—(U.R.)—In August, 1945, after the bombing of Hiroshima, President Truman proclaimed that man had trapped the forces that energize the sun and stars.
He was right. The bomb that's destroyed Hiroshima got its violence from the atom's nuclear forces—the same forces that keep the stars blazing and the galaxies shining.
H-Bomb, Not A-Bomb, Uses Solar Energy; Can Level Metropolises With One Blow
But these forces are freed in a variety of ways, and not until this fall did man manage to loose them in a manner roughly similar to the method employed by the sun and stars.
The nuclear reaction which gives the A-bomb its violence is called fission, or atom-splitting. The reaction which makes the H-bomb a super weapon is fusion, or the combining of atomic nuclei.
under the influence of multimillion-degree heat, to generate their fantastic radiant energies. But the stellar methods is tedious, consuming millions of years.
The stars employ fusion of simple hydrogen 'nuclei, brought to pass
The A-bomb gave man the extreme temperatures required for this "thermonuclear reaction" but permitted him only a split-million of a second in which to exploit it.
That ruled out slow-reacting hydrogen, the lightest of the elements. So man experimented until he found a special hydrogen, a three-times heavier kind called tritium, which would react in the fraction of a microsecond before the A-bomb's heat fell too low to set it
off.
Writium was just the tinder needed to "ignite" an H-bomb. It does not, however, exist in nature. Man had to create it—by bombarding other light elements in an atomic reactor with neutrons.
The only source of neutrons available in quantity to mankind is fissionable uranium. So to make the "primer" of H-bombs, man had to use up the stuff of A-bombs.
Interviews
Personnel representatives from two companies will interview February graduates of the School of Engineering next week.
But one H-bomb, depending on the amount of explosive hydrogen used, can be any number of times more powerful than an A-bomb. If a modern A-bomb can wreck a city, an H-bomb could destroy a metropolis. Physical law sets a limit on the A-bomb's violence but none on the H-bomb's.
Washington Marks Streets in Color
Students interested may obtain complete information and application forms at the office of the School of Engineering, 111 Marvin hall. Interested students may also sign the interview schedule in the same office.
Monday
The General Cable corporation will interview mechanical, electrical, industrial, metallurgical, and chemical engineers. They would also like to interview chemists and business administration students.
Tuesday
The Texas company is interested in interviewing mechanical engineers and business administration students.
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Friday
Monday
A representative of the Ford Motor company of Kansas City will be at the School of Business to interview any February graduates in the School of Business who are interested in an accounting position. The company is especially interested in accounting, finance, and industrial management majors.
Walter Sutton of Peat, Marwick,
Mitchell company will be at the
School of Business to interview
February and June graduates with
accounting majors.
Washington — (U.P.)—The Republicans, when they take over in January, will know in which direction they are going.
Club Sees Imitations Of Spanish Leaders
Any qualified persons who are interested in work with a public accounting firm may sign the interview schedule in the business placement bureau, 214 Strong.
Interpretations of important persons in the Spanish speaking world were given by the Spanish class of Domingo Ricart, assistant professor of Romance languages, to the Spanish club yesterday afternoon. Among them were Blasco Ibanez, Lazarrillo do Tormes and Padila Noño.
The pantomimes were followed by two choral selections by the Spanish chorus after which the meeting was adjourned by the president, Diane Wade.
The next meeting will be open and the members of Tertulia, Spanish 1 and 2 students, will attend. There will be guests from the Junior High and High schools.
The outstanding feature of the new system is the use of colored directional route markers.
Newcomers to the capital, if they are not color-blind, can tell at a glance north from east and south from west—by new color marking on the streets. They will be set up by the vehicle and traffic division for the District of Columbia.
George E. Kencipp, head of the division, has been working on the project for a long time and by the time the new administration takes over he hopes to have the set-up all ready.
"I think we have something," the traffic man said. "It should help color in the light of day and will be reflectorized for night time visibility."
The way it it is mapped out now, the city is a little difficult for strangers. It's easy to get lost. There are these circles for one thing. It's not hard, if you aren't watching to make a complete circle and find yourself heading back in the direction from whence you came.
Mr. Kenfipp said that at each main entrance to the city there will be large signs, colored in the right hue, and stating the "cardinal directions." They will identify the direction with the color for subsequent route markers in the motorist's mind. Then he will just have to follow his direction color through the city.
If you are coming to Washington here's the pattern Mr. Kenfipp and his crew figured out:
The blue markers are north bound.
Green is for east. Red is for south,
and yellow is for west. The markers
will appear every few blocks.
Seoul Residents Work Hard; Make 'Welcome Ike' Signs
Seoul, Korea—(U.P.)-Residents of Seoul worked overtime today to make flags, welcoming banners and street signs to greet President-elect Dwight Eisenhower.
However, city officials said they had not been told when Gen. Eisenhower would arrive in Seoul, but they were taking no chances of getting caught short on enthusiasm.
"We want to do everything we can for him," said Mayor Kim Tai Sung.
The biggest worry was that Gen. Eisenhower will not visit Korea and that all the preparations would be in vain.
Mr. Sung said thousands of American and South Korean flags are being made and that nearly every resident lining the streets will be waving a banner.
"There will be more flags and welcoming signs than there were when President Syngman Rhee was inaugurated here," Mr. Sung said.
Big arches are being built at a dozen main points in the city and buildings will be hung with huge banners reading "Welcome Ike."
"We want to show Mr. Eisenhower that the people of Seoul have as much respect for him as do the American people," Mr. Sung said.
Christmas Seal Sale Begins This Week
The annual sale of Christmas seals in Lawrence was begun this week by the Douglas County TB association under the direction of Parke H. Woodard, county director.
The campaign started on the campus today with the mailing of letters to all staff and faculty members for contributions. The Christmas seals, $5 and $10 bonds are being sold.
At Least 45 Hurt In Train-Bus Crash
Houston — (U.P) The Santa Fe railroad's streamlined Grand Canyon limited collided with a crowded bus today and first reports said at least 45 persons were injured.
The police dispatcher said he knew of no fatalities immediately.
He said he originally sent 15 ambulances to the scene but got a call for additional ones a few minutes later.
Some of the 20 ambulances which were finally sent made a second trip between the wreck and Houston hospitals, he said.
The accident occurred in the 200 block on Preston road as the train was pulling into Houston from Los Angeles.
The bus was dragged 50 feet before the train stopped.
Typhoon Will Miss Okinawa Air Base
Tokyo — (U.P.)— Air Force weather observers said today a Pacific typhoon has changed its course and probably will miss the huge American bomber base of Okinawa.
Strong winds may lash Okinawa,
but typhoon "Carmen" will pass
80 miles east of the island, forest-
carses said.
The storm is also losing its fury. Lashing the ocean with 130 mile an hour winds yesterday, the winds dropped to 80 miles an hour today as it changed its course from north to northeast.
Sleeping Sickness Virus May Be Cure for Cancer
Los Angeles—(U.P.)—Sleeping sickness viruses, often fatal to humans, may be tamed for use in treating cancer within the foreseeable future,a specialist has predicted!
Dr. Joseph H. Burchenau, medical expert of the Sloan-Kettering Institute of Cancer Research in New York, told 300 doctors at sixth annual Urological Research convention that scientists have developed sleeping sickness viruses that will kill cancer in animals.
The problem, he said, is to modify the viruses so they will not kill the animals. If this can be done, he said, it may be possible to use them to treat cancer in humans.
This virus has been developed to the point where it will kill cancer in mice within 24 hours, but the mice died of sleeping sickness a few days later, the specialist said.
Another virus that is being investigated, Dr. Burchenal said, is the Egyptian sleeping sickness virus, which is fatal to mice but produces only a mild, feverish illness in humans.
Many viruses have been investigated for anti-cancer action, he said, and the most promising one found yet is a Russian encephalitis virus.
Clubs May Obtain Scholastic Standings
Mid-semester reports of students in the College will be given to organizations wanting them, Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean, said today.
Reports of freshmen and sophomores in the College can be obtained by the student bringing a statement from his adviser stating his standing in courses.
Junior and senior reports will be given if the organization will bring a list of its junior and senior members to the College office. The College will then indicate any unsatisfactory reports.
The mid-semmester advisory period ends today. Freshman and sophomores who have not yet met with their advisers are asked make an appointment to do so, Mr. Ulmer said.