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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1951
Five Alumni Named To Receive Award
Five alumni have been chosen to receive the K.U. Alumni association's award for distinguished service, it was announced today by Dolph Simons, president of the association.
by Dolph Simons, present The citations will be presented at the University's annual Alumni Commencement supper June 3. Those present to receive their awards will participate in a short discussion of "the place of the university in the future" at the annual alumni meeting the same day.
Those chosen by a secret committee for the 1951 awards for achievement and service to the world at large are:
Waldo Gleason Bowman, '23, o New York, editor of the Engineering News-Record; Arthur Lintor Corbin, '44, retired teacher in the Yale law school and eminent authority on contract law; Dean A. McGee, '26, Oklahoma City, executive vice-president of Kerr-McGee Industries, and eminent geologist; Richard W. Porter, '44, Schenectady, N. Y., a director of guided missiles research; and Chet Shaw, '24 New York City, executive editor of Newsweek magazine.
Bowman joined the McGray-Hill company's staff in 1925 and became editor of its principal engineering publication in 1940. During the war he organized worldwide engineering inspection trips for the armed forces. In 1948 he was elected a director of the American Association of Civil Engineers. He is the author of two books tracing American military engineering achievements during the war.
Corbin is a brother of the late Alberta Corbin, K.U. teacher for whom Corbin hall is named. He studied law at Yale and joined the faculty there in 1903.
McGee, although still considered a great geologist, is now the chief executive of the firm in which the senior partner is Sen. Robert Kerr, (D.-Olda).
The citation of Porter is significant in that he is the first Summerfield scholar to be so honored. A native of Salina, he went from KU to Yale university as Coffin research fellow and in 1937 earned the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering. Since then he has been employed by General Electric Corp.
These citations bring to 92 th number voted since the plan was started in 1941. They are the equiva lent of an honorary degree, which K.U. does not grant.
Shaw is a veteran of World War I and attended K.U. after that service. He was editor of the University Daily Kansan, worked on the Lawrence -Daily Journal-World, and edited the K.U. Alumni magazine a short time. His rise in the news gathering world was steady.
Fulbright Awards To Two Students
Two more University students have received Fulbright scholarships for study abroad, bringing the total to six for 1951.
The latest awards are to Jean Kirkham, graduate student and John Robert Vignery, College senior from Lawrence.
Miss Kirkham, who received an A.B. degree from K.U. in 1950, is a candidate for an M.A. degree. She will study English literature at the University of Durham, Newcastle division, Newcastle, England. She is the first K.U. student to receive a Fulbright grant to England.
Vignery is majoring in history and will receive an A.B. degree in June. He will study at the University of Liege in Belgium. He is a Summerfield scholar.
Both students are members of Phi Beta Kappa, honorary liberal arts fraternity. They will receive grants from the state department to cover their educational and living expenses and transportation costs.
KU Psychology Professor
To Attend New York Meeting
Alfred Baldwin, professor of psychology, left recently for New York City to attend a committee meeting on the "Early Identification of Talent."
The committee is appointed by the Social Science Research council.
Truman Blasts Taft Suggestion
Washington (U.P.)—President Truman said today that Sen. Robert A. Taft's "very foolish" suggestion to cut the armed forces' manpower goal by 500,000 men was "an invitation to war" with Russia.
"Penny-pinching now may mean throwing away the lives of our soldiers later on," Mr. Truman said in a strong plea for the administration's military and economic programs.
Speaking before the National Conference on Citizenship, the President urged housewives and wage earners to form a huge consumers' lobby to bring pressure on congress for an extension of strong controls over prices, wages and rents.
"If they are not," Mr. Truman said, "our whole economy will be in great danger, and every family in the country will suffer."
Mr. Truman did not mention Taft's name, but the President left no doubt that he meant the Ohio Republican leader who is regarded as a leading possibility for the 1952 G.O.P. presidential nomination.
The projected goal for the armed forces during the next fiscal year is three and one-half million persons. Taft has suggested a drop in the goal to about three million men because of "a large waste of personnel" which he believes can be corrected.
Cooperation Needed Here
"Community government" or a governing council composed of students, faculty members, and alumni might solve many of the problems of student government at the University, the campus affairs committee decided at a meeting Wednesday night.
"I feel that whatever is at stake, is at stake for all three groups—students, faculty, and alumni," said Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women. "The raise in fees or the selection of a new chancellor are things which affect all of us. The board of regents, the students, and the faculty members all tend to think that they individually are the most important to the University. I think we could do something if we all worked together."
The committee feels that securing good representation with our present system of selecting the All Student Council is a problem of student interest in the A.S.C. They decided that having representation from schools and organizations should insure a fair cross-section of interests on the Council.
Wilson O'Connell, College senior,
gave a report to the committee
about the government of other uni-
lities and colleges across the
country.
James Burgoyne, director of Student Union Activities, suggested that pictures of the Council members be displayed so that students can be made better acquainted with the representative from their school.
Patricia Glover, education junior, was put in charge of calling a meeting of the old committee next fall to select new members. The pros and cons of community government for the University will be the first topic for discussion next semester.
Bradley - Truman Sessions Can Remain Secret
Washington (U.P.)—Senators investigating Gen. Douglas MacArthur's ouster voted today that Gen. Omar N. Bradley need not disclose what President Truman said in secret about the Far Eastern commander five days before MacArthur was fired.
The vote—18 to 8-removed any possibility of contempt action against the five-star chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
Six Republicans and 12 Democrats voted that Bradley need not disclose the conversation. Six Republicans and two Democrats voted that he should answer.
Chairman Richard B. Russell, (D.-Ga.), of the Senate Armed Services-Foreign Relations committee, citing historic precedents and legal rulings, had defended Bradley.
forcing him to betray the President's confidence, Russell said, would have been a blow at the "security of our country."
Wiley said that in demanding testimony about the April 6 White House conference which preceded MacArthur's recall he sought only to "maintain the dignity and the power of the Senate."
Russell's statement angered Sen. Alexander Wiley, (R-Wis.), whose questioning raised the issue. He told the chairman he "resents" the charge that he was politically motivated.
Asserting that the administration has no right to withhold any information needed by Congress, Wiley told committee members the question before them was whether they are "mice or men."
The squabble interrupted Bradley's testimony on Tuesday after he had told the committee that he and the joint chiefs of staff on military grounds, unanimously approved Mr. Truman's decision to fire MacArthur.
Friday the committee will hear Adm. Forrest P. Sherman, chief of naval operations.
Telegraph Operators Strike Is Spreading
1. Many Communist-owned and operated firms have been set up in West Germany to ship materials into Russian-controlled East Germany.
He told reporters later that he got his information from secret sources in Germany. He said the shipments were illegal by reason of their strategic nature and were possible only because improper licensing procedures are in effect.
Kenneth R. Hansen, reporting on an on-the-spot survey, told a Senate commerce subcommittee that highly strategic materials such as geodetic instruments, rolling mill equipment, and even a complete power plant for installation in Manchuria have been ordered from West Germany.
Washington—A Senate subcommittee investigator testified Wednesday that West German firms, including some which get Marshall plan help, are making illegal shipments "right now" to Communist China.
Three One-Act Plays To End Lab Theater Shows For Term
The information, Mr. Hansen said, has already been turned over to U.S. officials in Germany for action within a reasonable time.
World Wide News
2. There has been an "alarming" increase in the volume of legal exports from West Germany to the Chinese Communists—from $413,000 in 1949 to $11,384,000 (M) in 1950, and the bulk of that after the Korean war started.
He also testified that:
Philadelphia (U.P.)—A walkout of Western Union operators spread rapidly through the United States today, with telegraphic services already crippled in sections of at least 10 states.
West Germany Aids Red Cause
Three excellent one-act play theater of Green hall to end the term. They are "The Valiant," drama; and "Wurzel-Flummery."
By WILLIAM DICKINSON
A. A. Milne's "Wurzel-Flummery," is a light English comedy with an emphasis on plot. Two British politicians are offered a fortune if they will consent to change their last names to Wurzel-Flummery. Much discussion follows as the politicians argue whether it is best to
Scenery is kept to a minimum and emphasis is placed on the poetry of the lines.
Costumes were designed by Mary Holt, special student. John White, College junior, directed the play.
Mary Lou Lane, education senior; Harold Harvey and Dan Palm-quist, instructors in speech, are the capable principals.
"A Minuet," by Louis Parker, concerns a French Marquis who calmly waits in his cell to be guillotined as a victim of the revolution. In a style that typifies the 18th century Age of Reason, he maintains his emotionless, courtly manners even when his wife, the Marchioness, visits him. The ensuing scene is delightful.
Performances are scheduled at 8 p.m. through Friday.
The action of "The Valiant," by Holworthy Hall and Robert Middlemass, is set in a prison death house, and is the poignant story of the last minutes of a condemned man's life. James Claussen, College sophomore, did an outstanding job of directing.
The scene between the condemned man "Dike," played by Gary Lehman, College freshman, and "The Girl," portrayed by Marcia Gore, College freshman, was superbly acted.
Union sources said they expected the entire Eastern division to be out shortly. This would add another nine states to those already affected by the strike.
opened Tuesday in the Little lab theater productions for the drama; "A Minuet," a poetical comedy.
sacrifice their pride and become rich, or to lose the money and save their inherited names. An incidental love affair completes the action.
William Solnler, graduate student,
is excellent as the rakish lawyer.
Cynthia Mers, College junior,
and William Van Almen, College sophomore,
are credible in their parts.
Mary Lou Lane, education senior,
directed the play.
Humor Magazine To Go On Sale
The Sour Owl, official humor magazine of the University, will go on sale Monday, May 21, editor Francis J. Kelley said today. It will be sold in Strong lobby, the lobby of the Union, and in front of Watson library.
The current issue of the magazine will feature Marcia Horn, College sophomore, as cover girl and will contain stories on several "related subjects." It will include a character sketch of John Ise and cartoons by Paul Coker, Dick Bibler, F. G. McCleanah and Tom Schtolerbach.
"We even have a pictorial interview with Dale Fields, the plastic-faced uproar in the Journalism school." Kelley said. "What else would a guy want? Fields is always good for a laugh."
This issue of the Sour Owl, a 12-page magazine, will sell for 25 cents.
A spokesman for the Commercial Telegraphers union (A.F.L.) said the men were walking out everywhere that the company is using supervisory personnel in the traffic department.
The company and local officials of the C.T.U. scheduled a meeting for 2 p.m. (E.D.T.) in an effort to effect a settlement of the dispute.
Union spokesmen charged that the supervisors were being trained to handle telegraph equipment in case the operators strike July 1 for a 25 cents-an-hour wage increase.
Three Kansas rivers in the southwest and south-central parts of the state were flooding today, with the long, winding Arkansas the major troublemaker.
It was inundating thousands of acres of lowlands in the Garden City area, but the city was protected by re-inforced dikes which held fast. The river subsided below bankful at Syracuse which had been menaced for a time Wednesday.
Three Kansas Rivers Flood
The little Arkansas climbed nearly 10 feet over its banks at Sedgwick in south-central Kansas. The Lower Ninnescah was due to reach a crest in the Pratt vicinity tomorrow of 7 to 8 feet above floodstage. As the Arkansas crest moved downstream from Garden City, Dodge City was alerted for a 3-foot flood by Friday morning.
Chief Soviet Delegate Jacob A. Malik launched a bitter attack on proposed embargo, on the United States, and on the procedure the U.N. seeks to follow as a tense meeting of the Assembly's 60-nation political committee opened to debate the embargo plan which was approved last week by the special committee on Korean sanctions.
Flushing. N.Y. (U.P.)-Russia today challenged the right of the United Nations General Assembly to ban arms shipments to Communist China. The Soviets contended that sanctions could be voted only by the Security council, where they could use the veto.
Norfolk, Va. (U,P)—The crippled seaplanet tender Valour was towed into a berth in the navy yard at Portsmouth Wednesday to have her collision-torn, flame-scarred compartments "steamed-out" so searchers might enter.
So far, two bodies have been recovered from the navy vessel, which collided with the collier Thomas Tracy off Cape Henry Monday.
Navy officials said they feared at least three bodies might be found when the engine room and three other below-decks compartments were entered, probably late today.
Seaplane Tender To Be Searched For More Dead
Russia Challenges UB Ban On Shiroments TO China
AROTC To Give 8 Awards Saturday
Wednesday's Daily Kansan carried a story about Armed Forces day to be held Saturday. A list of eight awards given by the University Army R.O.T.C. unit was inadvertently omitted. The awards will be distributed: one each to a senior infantryman, a senior engineer, a junior infantryman, a junior engineer, a sophomore infantryman, a sophomore engineer, the outstanding freshman, and the best rine shot in the unit. best rifle shot in the unit.