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University Daily Kansan Thursday. Feb. 21, 1952
News Roundup
Communists Riot In Japanese Cities
Tokyo— (U.P.) —More than 10,000 police were mobilized for an emergency alert in Tokyo tonight after co-ordinated Communist riots here and in other cities.
Military police and Japanese news agency reports said that in addition to outbreaks here, the Reds rioted in Osaka, Nagoya, Tottori, Yonago, Hiratsuka, Fujisawai and other cities.
They attacked police and railroad stations at some places. At least 14 policemen were injured in classes. In the suburbs, 500 people were under arrest here and in Osaka.
The riots were co-ordinated to take place between 5 and 6 p.m. on the occasion of a Red "anti-colonization" day to protest against United States-Japan negotiations for a mutual security pact and the peace policies of the Japanese government now being debated in Parliament.
Transit Strike Results In 'Jam'
San Francisco—(U.P.) —Residents climbed into their automobiles and pushed their way into "the greatest traffic jam in San Francisco history" today as a strike of city transit employees went into it's second day with no indication of a compromise.
At a meeting Wednesday night, members of the AFL Carmen's union voted unanimously to "carry the strike to a successful conclusion," according to Union International Representative Henry Mann
The decision forced approximately 230,000 persons who daily use the municipal railway service to seek help or walk to work for the second day.
The big walkout came after Mayor Elmer E. Robinson issued an ultimatum to 91 workers on the seven-mile-long Powell street cable carline, who walked off their jobs Sunday in protest of schedules which forced six workers to spread their work day over a period of 11 hours
New Storm Lashes Faithful Seamen
Boston—(U,P)—A new Northeast storm bore down today on the 13 "stay put" seamen riding the battered stern of the tanker Fort Mercer, which was split in two during a Nor'easter Monday.
Two tugs had the Mercer in tow but they moved at a crawling pace of three knots and could not outrun the storm.
The stern of the Fort Mercer was taken in tow by two tugs after Coast Guardsmen completed the rescue of 57 other seamen from the Fort Mercer and its 10,000-ton twin bridge. The boat broke in two in Monday's storm. A total of 14 seamen were lost in the double tragedy.
Most of the 13 seamen of the Mercer's stern stayd aboard in an attempt to salvage the ship's machinery, which is in that part of the vessel, and what remained of a cargo of oil.
Armed Forces Cut Would Aid UMT
Washington—(U.P.) —Senate supporters of our military training believed today **an"economy** amendment to trim the size of the armed forces would help push UMT through the House.
The amendment was added by the Senate armed services committee Wednesday in approving the six-month training program for 18-year-olds. It provides that the standing armed forces will cut back semi-annually after UMT pumps 300,000 trainees into the reserves.
The services would be trimmed at the rate of one regular for each three UMT graduates added to the reserves, until the armed forces are down to 2,006,000—a level they would reach five to six years after the cutbacks began.
Nation May Walk During Oil Strike
Denver> (U.P.)—An oil industry spokesman said today that within
three weeks many of the nation's motorists will be "afoot" if 275,000 oil workers make good their threatener strike.
Representatives of the workers announced after a joint co-ordinating meeting Wednesday night that a nationwide strike would be called March 3 to back up the Union's demands for a straight $2 a day wage increase.
For the first time in history, 22 CIO, AFL and independent unions joined in a common effort to force the industry to accept their demands.
The strike-if it comes off—will hit refineries, pipelines, production plants, sales forces and in some instances, chemical plants.
TUNISIAN HEAD—Habib Bourguiba, head of the Tunisian Constitution party, has been arrested and exiled by French authorities. His release has been hinted by the resident general after the general visited the Bey of Tunis to talk
over major issues.
Committee Ends Tax Investigation
San Francisco — (U.P.)—The King congressional committee concluded its investigation of the San Francisco tax scandal today after diagnosing the local internal revenue disease as a political infection derived from an "inept top administration" in Washington.
Rep. Cecil R. King said the corruption in the San Francisco office, which resulted in the firing of tax collector James G. Smyth and the indictment of six tax officials, had been small-scale and petty and involved relatively small losses to the government.
The California Democrat adjourned 15 days of hearings by his House ways and means subcommittee Wednesday with an acid indictment of his own party's "complacency and indifference."
Washington—(U.P.) House Republicans said today they are satisfied with President Truman's assurance that he has made no secret agreement to Britain to send additional American troops anywhere in the world.
Truman Statement Satisfies GOP
Administration officials and Democratic leaders said it was too bad the President was compelled byCircumstances that it may be of great interest to Russia.
Mr. Truman made the no-commitments statement late Wednesday shortly after the House passed a GOP resolution remanding a full vote to approve his meetings with Prime Minister Winston Churchill the past month.
Officials said he spoke out—even though the resolution was not binding on him—because he feared continued silence might deepen the suspicion that he had something to hide.
Garden City—(U,P) -The troubles of Wayne S. Marteney, 40-year-old head of the Garden Grain and Seed company, mounted today.
Marteney Freed On $5,000 Bond
Marteney was free under $5,000 bond on two charges of issuing fraudulent warehouse grain receipts, pending preliminary hearing Mar. 1.
The hearing was delayed when Marteney, haggard but calm, told the District Judge Milward C. Schrader, his lawyer, Logan Gore县 City was undergoing treatment in Colorado and could not represent him.
Testimony at the creditors hearing revealed the firm was short hundreds of thousands of bushels of grain owned by 200 southwest Kansas producers. Its whereabouts remained a mystery after the two-day session.
Marteney had no comment on the latest circumstance of the rapid rise and fall in the 2000 grain con- which wevelled in four years from a small feed store.
Topeka—(U.P.)—Kansas Democrats' biggest powwow in four years this week will be almost pure politics—state and national.
Democrat Meeting To Be Political
The Democrats start gathering in the Kansas capital Friday and reach a climax in their political maneuver, 2000 of the party faithful will attend.
On both days state Democrat leaders will hold caucuses about their plans. Several undoubtedly will challenge the Republican party officeholders in the state. A Democrat and an opponent from several Democrat congressional hopefuls will emerge from the two day session.
Morris Key Man In Tanker Deal
Washington—(U.P.)—Sen. Richard M. Nixon made that Newbold Morris was the "key figure in what appears to be a subterfuge to get around the law" in a profitable surplus tanker deal.
Nixon, a committee member, said evidence presented so far indicates a deliberate attempt to get around the law "which prohibited the transference of rights to controlled corporations." Morris's firm was involved in the deal.
President Truman's government corruption clean-up chief retorted the statement "just isn't so—what more can I say?"
Eighth Army Headquarters, Korea — (U.P.) — American Sabrejets shot down MIG-15's today to bring to seven the number of Communist jets destroyed in the past three days.
Sabrejets Down Two More MIGs
On the ground, Communist forces ambushed a United Nations patrol west northwest of Kansung on the front. Force reinforcements trying to come to the aid of the patrol were pinned down by enemy mortar fire.
Enjoying a numerical advantage for a change, 26 F-26 Sabres battled 40 of the Russian-built fighters on northeast of Sinaniu in "MG Allez."
Additional reinforcements arrived an hour and 15 minutes after the ambush was sprung and all UN forces were able to disengage and return to their own lines. Else-forestion on the 04A, with front, there was only probing and patrol action with a platoon the maximum size unit.
Dixiecrats May Be In Race Again
Washington — (U.P.) — A leading Dixie Democrat predicted today that a third party will be formed in the South this year if President Truman
Murphy To Speak At Brotherhood Dinner
Dr. Franklin D. Murphy will be the speaker at the annual Brotherhood dinner of the Lawrence League for the Practice of Democracy to be held Tuesday, Feb. 26.
The program will also include songs by Curtis Glover, graduate student in musical education, P. N. Varlughese, graduate student from India, and a student from Haskell Institute.
The dinner, which will be held at the Congregational Parish House at 925 Vermont, is being given to honor national Brotherhood Week, established by the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Tickets can be obtained from J. S. Daniels at 222 West 9.
Camps Offering Jobs For Women
Women's summer jobs listed in the dean of women's office include positions as camp counselors in eight states and as clerks, waitresses and other similar job openings in Yellowstone National park.
Girl Scouts, Campfire Girls and Young Men's Christian association camps in Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Oklahoma, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois and New York are requesting applications for counselors in the next few weeks.
Girl Scout camps include Camp Scott, under the Tulsa, Okla., Girl Scout council; Camp Woodland, St. Joseph, Mo., council; Camp Medill McCormick, Rockford, Ill., council; Camp Turkey Creek, Wichita; Camp Daisy Hindman, Topeka; Camp Oak-ledge, Kansas City, and Camps Laughing, Water, Quidnunc, Andree and Brady, under the New York city council.
and Sen. Robert A. Taft are the major party nominees for president.
On the other hand, he said, there is little chance of a new "Dixiecrat revolt" if President Truman steps aside for some other Democratic candidate, or if Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is the GOP nominee.
In the latter case, he said, many key Southern Democratic leaders would just "sit on their hands" during the campaign and let matters take their course, in the expectation that Eisenhower would carry at least five or six Southern states.
New Atomic Engines Ordered For Subs
Washington—(U.P.) —The government today ordered "immediate construction" of a new atomic submarine engine of advanced design
The nuclear power plant, to be built by the General Electric company at West Milton, N.Y., will be a land-based pilot model. If successful, it will clear the way for early construction of a sister ship to the U.S.S. Nautilus, the Navy's first atomic submarine, which is due to be launched in 1954.
NATO Approves Armament Plan
Lisbon, Portugal—(U.P.) The defense ministers of the 14-nation North Atlantic treaty organization approved today the military and civilian plans for setting up a 1,430,000-man European army.
In the first major NATO decision, the defense ministers adopted the report of the military committee by agreeing to the plan to create a unified European Army in 14 French. 12 German, 12 Italian and five Benelux divisions by 1954.
Strike Threat Eased At Ordnance Plant
Parsons—(U.P). The threat of a strike at the Kansas Ordnance plant here was eased Wednesday when a tentative agreement between Nato's payload company officials and CIO United Chemical workers was announced.
Maurice Harrigan, president of the Union local, said there would be a membership meeting to ratify the agreement, and until that meeting announcement would be made concerning the terms of the tentative agreement.
The Kansas Ordnance plant is engaged in war production work.
Students Receive High Honors
Thirty-two students in the department of chemistry were honored for their superior work in beginning chemistry courses during the fall semester.
Dr. Calvin A. VanderWerf, acting chairman of the department, said congratulatory letters had been sent the parents of the students, most of them freshmen, who made an "A" in the courses Chemistry 2 or 2E. The courses are identical except that 2E, arranged for engineering students, has one less laboratory period per week.
The department believes its elementary course is sufficiently thorough and challenging that an "A" grade is an achievement worthy of recognition and encouragement, Dr. VanderWerf said.
Those receiving "A" in chemistry 2E are the following engineering freshmen:
Those in chemistry 2 receiving "A" include:
Roger Heiskell, Vernon Dale Schrag, Lewis A. Phillips, Lewis A. Phillips, Lawrence William Taylor Jr., Douglas B. Smith, Edward Freeburg, LeRoy M. Herold, William Winston Deacon, Ludwig A. Smith, Charles P. Peterman and Richard Backman.
Lynn Martin Stewart, George Allen Daniels, Dwight Harwood Harrison, James Francis Duncan, Delbert M. Jones, Robert Lee Terry Marshall Brown, Ben A. Dalton, Robert P. Rannie, James Perkins.
Pharmacy: Ivan W. Watkins, freshman. College: James F. Peterson, sophomore, Roger Youmans, freshman, Carl D. Ambler, sophomore.
Darrell D. Fanestil, freshman,
Charles Schroff, sophomore, Margaret E. Newton, sophomore, John S. Trombold, freshman, Terry V. Carle, freshman, Anthony J. Pitz, freshman, and Charles F. Schafer, freshman.
Reading Clinic Plans Two Classes
These classes will meet Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for six weeks at 9 and 11 a.m. Students may enroll for either hour.
Two reading classes will be started Monday. Feb. 25, to accommodate students who were unable to enroll in the first group classes.
These courses are free and non-credit. No outside preparation is necessary and all materials are furnished.
Students enrolling in these courses will be taught to improve their reading and comprehension in reading. Some of the instructional general methods of effective study.
Interested persons may inquire at the reading clinic 18 Fraser, from 3 to 5 p.m. for complete details of the various reading courses.
YWCA To Meet At 4 p.m. Today
An all-membership YWCA meet ing will be held 4 p.m. today on the second floor of Myers hall.
On the program several students will talk about ways young people may spend their summers in camp counseling, study seminars in government and social services, hosteling trips, study tours of Mexico and Europe and student conferences.
Marine's Bugle Call Traps Communists
Korea — (U,P)—A Marine bugle virtuoso tried luring the Communists to destruction.
At strategic moments, he blared the Chinese call for attack, which brought the enemy running straight into the muzzles of Leathernck guns.
He learned the call, note for oriental note, when his patrol surprised four enemy soldiers, and a red bugler called for aid.
Little Symphony To Perform
Phi Mu Alpha, professional music fraternity, will sponsor a concert by the university. Little symphony Monday, March 4, in Strong auditorium.