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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, MAY 21, 1951
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700 Guests Attend Faculty Club Opening
More than 700 guests consisting of faculty members, their wives and husbands attended the opening of the Faculty club Sunday. One hundred and fifty staff members signed to become charter members of the club.
Chancellor and Mrs. Deane W. Malott, members of the planning committee, and other faculty members greeted those who came to see the new clubhouse. There was no formal receiving line of ceremony.
The clubhouse will be open daily for those who have joined. Tentative hours are 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.
Miss Alita Brown will assist Prof Helen Lohr, who is to be the hostess until the end of summer session.
A member of the planning committee will be at the clubhouse every evening this week at 7:30 p.m. to guide through the building those faculty members and chief administrative officers who are eligible for membership. Their wives and husbands are also invited, Elmer F. Beth, chairman of the planning committee said.
The organization meeting will be in the clubhouse at 8 p.m., Thursday, May 31. Before then, a nominating committee of the charter members will present candidates for the offices and the election will be held. After officers have been elected, the planning committee will turn the management of the clubhouse over to them.
Those who assisted with the signing of members yesterday were Prof. Frances Grinstead, Prof. Viola Anderson, Mrs. Elmer F. Beth, Prof. Paul Brotsman, Prof. George Kreye, Prof. Henry Shenk, Prof. James Seaver, Prof. E. R. Elbel, and Prof. Carlyle H. Smith.
Eligible faculty members who wish to join the club as charter or interim (for summer only) members, may do so by communicating with the planning committee: Mrs. Natalie Calderwood, Prof. Helen Lohr, Dean T. DeWitt Jr, Joseph Wilson, Prof. M. C. Slough, and Prof. Elmer Beth.
Court Rules On Price Fixing
Forty-five states have laws requiring retailers to abide by such agreements.
Washington, —U.P.—The Supreme Court ruled today that retailers are not bound by price fixing agreements they have not signed-state laws notwithstanding.
Today's 6 to 3 decision knocks the non-signer provision out of their fair trade laws. The Supreme Court action applies to goods which retailers obtain through interstate trade channels.
All states except Missouri, Texas and Vermont have fair trade laws. The District of Columbia also does not have a fair trade law.
Today's test case concerned resale prices fixed by two distillers, Calvert and Seagram. They sued Schwegmann brothers, owners of a New Orleans supermarket, because the store was selling "Calvert Reserve" whiskey for $3.35 a fifth and "Seagram's 7 Crown" for $3.51 when the distillers claimed the price should be $4.25.
Talking Doll
Traps Gem Thief
New York (U.P.)—A talking doll that strangled on the word "mama" was credited today with sending a housemaid to jail on charges of stealing a $1,700 diamond ring from her employer.
Detective John Carrol said he made a search yesterday of the home of Mrs. Georgia Smith, 26, after her employer reported the ring missing. As he was about to leave, he said, the maid's five-year-old daughter waved her doll to make it say "mama."
Carroll said he noticed the "mama" sounded suspiciously strangled. He removed the doll's leg and found the stolen ring which had fouled the doll's talking apparatus. Mrs. Smith was charged with grand larceny and held on $2,000 bail.
SUA To Give $25 For Best Show
Citizens Can Blame Squirrel, Not Bombs
A prize of $25 will be given by Student Union Activities for the best script and music submitted for next year's College Daze, all student musical production.
Paul Arrowood, president-elect of S.U.A., suggested that students interested in writing the show work on their scripts and music this summer. All shows submitted will be judged in October by a committee composed of the S.U.A. board of directors and ucaffy advisors from the speech, music and English departments.
Although music and scripts submitted separately will be considered, Arrowwood urged writers and composers to work together so the music and scripts will be co-ordinated.
Arrowwood will keep a list of persons interested in writing either script or music. Students desiring someone to work with should call him at 994.
State Issues Checks For Civil Defense
Topeka (U.P.)—State allocations totaling about one million dollars for civil defense projects in each of Kansas' 105 counties were in the mail Wednesday.
The 1951 legislature had ordered the funds sent to the counties to assure defense readiness on the county and local level.
The allocations come from state sales tax funds and the allotment is distributed to counties on the basis of population and property valuation. Counties must, in turn, distribute half the allocation to cities on a population basis.
According to the 1951 legislative distribution act, counties and cities of the state may use the funds for purposes other than civil defense if they are not used for that purpose by June 1, 1952.
AWS Coffee At 4 p.m. Today
Coffee and cookies will be served at the Associated Women Students open house from 1 to 4 p.m. today in the A.W.S. lounge in Strong hall. The purpose of the meeting is for all University women to get together before finals. This is the last open house to be sponsored by the A.W.S. this year.
Aurora, Ill. (U.P)—All electric power was cut off in Aurora and adjacent areas for 34 minutes May 16 when a frisky squirrel caused a short circuit at a power substation.
Lights here went out, factory machinery stopped and the radio station went off the air. Water pressure dropped when pumps ceased to function.
The squirrel hopped up on a bushbar carrying 33,000 volts. The short circuit stopped all power in Aurora and the nearby villages of Montgomery and Oswego as well as rural areas.
At the instant of the short circuit,
a few Aurora citizens thought the city was under bombing attack There was no panic.
The power failure touched off safety valves on steam-operated turbines at the power station. The steam let go with a loud roar that was heard over the city.
The squirrel was electrocuted.
At the same time, three military planes whizzed low over town.
46 Members Of KU Faculty Are Promoted
Promotions in academic rank for 46 members of the University faculty were announced today by Chancellor Deane W. Malott. Seventeen persons are on the Lawrence campus and 29 are on the staff of the Medical center in Kansas City, Kan.
Promotions for the Lawrence campus:
Attaining full professorial rank are Cloy Hobson (education), Jacob Kleinberg (chemistry), Russell C. Mills (biochemistry), W. D. Paden (English), and Charles D. Michener (entomology).
New associate professors are Miss Nancie Greenman (occupational therapy). Miss Frances Grinstead (journalism), Francis Heller (political science), who is on military leave, Anthony Smith (psychology), Howard Stettler (accounting).
Moving to assistant professor are Mrs. Natalie Calderwood (English), Gene Courtney (speech), Karl E. Edwards (education), Don Henry (physical education), Miss Ruth McNeilly (home economics), Walter Mikols (physical education), and Howard Stoltenberg (sanity engineering).
New professors are Dr. Donald Rose (physical medicine), Dr. H. A. Wenner (pediatrics), and Dr. Clark Wescoe (pharmacology).
Promotions at Kansas City:
New associate professors are Dr B. L. Elliott (psycho-neurology), Dr A. M. Ginsberg (medicine), Dr G. L. Harrington (psycho-neurology), Elda Hartung (nursing), Dr George Hermann (pediatrics), Dr Robert Newman (geynecology and obstetrics), and Dr G. W. Robinson, Jr. (psycho-neurology)
Those promoted to assistant professors are Dr. Sylvia Allen (psycho-neurology), Harriett Arnold (nursing), Dr. William B. Barry (otorhinolaryngology, or ear, nose, and throat), Dr. Michael Berneer (medicine), Theresa Christian (nursing), Dr. M. T. Eaton (psychoneurology). Ruth Groves (nursing), Dr. J. S. Knight (otorhinolaryngology), Dr. Paul Laybourne (pediatrics), Dr. G. R. Shepherd (audiovisual education), Dr. B. W. Trowbridge (otorhinolaryngology, Dr. E. H. Trowbridge (psycho-neurology) Dr. William Williamson (surgery).
Promoted to associate professor are Dr. Sigmund Gundle (psychoneurology) (also on Lawrence campus), Dr. J. C. Howard (otorrhinaryngology), Dr. T. R. Jones (medicine).
Advanced to instructor are Dr. W. P. Bunting (otorhinolaryngology), Dr. Don Fuhrman (dermatology), and Dr. Frank Dwyer (dermatology).
Campanile Is Not A 'Leaning Tower'
Rumors and one-sided engineering calculations to the contrary, the University of Kansas World War II memorial campanile isn't another "Leanning Tower of Pisa."
The story apparently started when some students in a surveying course adjusted their transits on the top of the 120-foot tower. They saw that the top varied from the vertical.
Rumors now current place the "tilt" from three inches to more than a foot. The worst is that some people have the tower leaning to north, others to the south, some to the east or west.
The tower is neither leaning in one direction nor is it waving in the breeze. The architect's plan called for a $9\frac{1}{2}$-inch taper near the top, a standard procedure to prevent the optical illusion of the tower being top-heavy.
World Wide News
Bad news can travel fast by mysterious methods. Frank C. Godfrey, works manager for the John Taylor foundry in England, which cast the bells, heard the rumor shortly after he arrived in New York a month ago.
Bradley Lists Reasons For MacArthur Oust
Washington (U.P.)—Gen. Omar N. Bradley said today the joint chief of staff recommended the dismissal of Gen. Douglas MacArthur because they felt his actions were jeopardizing the traditional civilian control of military authority.
Tornadoes Hit Western Kansas
Topeka. Kan. (U.P.)—Storms of intensive fury rocked southwestern Kansas during the night causing heavy damage, the Kansas weather bureau reported today.
Kansas weatherman Richard Garrett said the newspaper in Lakin reported all its back files flooded. At one time, he said, from four to six feet of water rushed through the center of town.
A pair of tornadoes bracketed Lakin, 24 miles west of Garden City. There was some property damage, the U.S. meteorological service said, as other weather upheavals lashed at the town.
Numerous business buildings had water still standing in their first floors today.
Almost as soon as the twisters passed the outskirts of the town, hail shattered windows and torential rains buffeted the town of 1,317 population. Irrigation ditches connecting with Lake McKinney quickly flooded.
The Sunday night storm at Lakin was indicative of the turbulent weather picture through Kansas, although most of the other activity consisted of heavy rains. A few strong windstorms were reported from scattered stations and some hail fell in western Kansas.
Convicts Rip Up New Prison During Five-Hour Riot
Point Of The Mountain, Utah (U.P.)
—Four hundred convicts today began cleaning up the mess they made during a five-hour riot in which they seized complete control of their "dream prison" and held seven guards as hostages.
Former Dust Bowl Counts
10 Flood Dead, Damages
Oklahoma City (UF)-The old dust bowl areas of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas today counted 10 deaths and millions of dollars in property damage from floods.
No overall estimate of property damage is available but municipal officials at Wichita, Kan., said the loss in that city alone would total more than $2,000,000.
Bradley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, also testified that the joint chiefs believed it was necessary to have a Far Eastern command "more responsive to conrol from Washington."
Bradley appeared for the third time before the senate committee investigating MacArthur's removal from the Far Eastern command. His testimony had been interrupted six days by a row whether he could be compelled to report his confidential conversations with President Truman. The committee voted 18 to 6, to let Bradley remain silent on the details of the talks.
At the opening of today's session,
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson, (D-
Texas), asked Bradley to give
the reasons for the joint chiefs' recommendation that MacArthur be removed.
Bradley recalled that the joint chiefs had concluded at a meeting on April 8, that MacArthur should be relieved from command in the Far East. After their meeting, he said, they submitted their recommendation to Defense Secretary Marshall, with this explanation, as reported by Bradley;
"One. That by MacArthur's public statements and by his official communications to us, he had indicated that he was not in sympathy with the decision to try to limit the conflict to Korea. This would make it difficult for him to carry out joint chiefs of staff directives. Since we had decided to try to confine the conflict to Korea and avoid a third world war, it was necessary to have a commander more responsive to control from Washington.
"The second reason advanced by the chiefs was that General MacArthur had failed to comply with a presidential directive to clear statements on policy before making such statements public. He had also taken independent action in proposing to negotiate directly with the enemy field commander for an armistice and had made that statement public despite the fact that he knew the president had such a proposal under consideration from a governmental level.
"The third reason advanced by the chiefs was that 'they, the joint chiefs of staff, have felt and feel now that the military must be controlled by civilian authority in this country.' They have always adhered to this principle and they felt that General MacArthur's actions were continuing to jeopardize the civilian control over the military authorities."
Truman Takes Pen In Hand Again— To Praise Price Boss Michael DiSalle
Washington (U.P.)—President Truman, a good hand with a pen and a plow, has written Price Boss Michael V. DiSalle his appreciation of the salty way he has deflated some capital egos—much as the way the president used to deflate gas-swollen bulls.
The latest presidential letter was disclosed by Columnist Drew Pearson. DiSalle was not available for comment, but associates said he had recently received a note from Mr. Truman.
Pearson disclosed this version of the letter:
"Dear Mike.
"I have just read today's New York Times' story about your grand sense of humor. It gave me a lift.
"Since I've been in Washington I've seen many stuffed shirts, and your wise-cracks about Washington life remind me of how we used to use a trocar on a clovered bull. There's a loud explosion and the bull resumes his normal shape and usually recovers.
"Keep sticking 'em.
Indian.
A trocar is a surgical instrument sometimes used to relieve animals of gas. A clovered bull presumably is a bull which has become swollen
with gas from eating too much green clover.
Spokesmen at the Office of Price Stabilization said that Pearson's version was "not a correct text." But other sources said the version is substantially correct. They said the contents of the letter were told to the columnist by someone who had read the note.
The president frequently dashes off letters. Some get him into trouble such as the one in which he described the Marines as having a propaganda machine equal to Josef Stalin's. He publicly apologized to the Marines for that one.
Another letter went to Washington Post music critic Paul Hume who didn't rate Margaret Truman's singing very highly. The letter fetched Hume a good price from a collector and not yet the punch in the nose which the president threatened.