Kansas State Historical Society
University Daily Kansan STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
KU Professor, Wife, Child Are Killed Logan Elected President Of ASC In Record Voting FACTS Candidates Win 10 Of 17 Council Seats Students Defeat All Propositions Walter Ewert Family Involved In Crash Near Onawa, Iowa
By ANNE SNYDER and BEN HOLMAN
The mighty Fachacamac-N.O.W. machine tumbled Wednesday after five years of power.
James Logan, F.A.C.T.S. candidate, was elected All Student Council president with a 245 majority,1,721 to 1,476. F.A.C.T.S. candidates took 10 of 17 council district seats.
The total number of students who voted, determined from the A.S.C. presidential ballots, was 3,233, an all-time record. Of this number, 56 ballots were voided or blank, bringing the total counted votes to 3,197. Total votes cast were 945 more than the previous year.
"I'm very grateful to the students for placing their confidence and faith in me and F.A.C.T.S. party." Logan commented after his victory.
"It was a clean campaign and I saw no irregularities at the polls. I know that Warren and I will be able to work together harmoniously for the benefit of all the students. The election is a mandate for action—and we intend to go to work."
In district I (College and School of Journalism), F.A.C.T.S. elected four representatives and Pachac-mac-N.O.W. elected three. F.A.C-T.S. winners were Lyle Anderson, Donald Dirks, and Christine Johnson. College sophomores; and Thomas Murphy. College junior.
Pachacamac-N.O.W. winners in the district were Phillip Owen and Virginia Mackey, College sophomores; and James Martin, College junior.
In district II (School of Engineering), F.A.C.T.S. won two seats and Pachacamac-N.O.W., one F.A.C.T.S. winners were William Stinson, engineering junior, and Frank Exter, engineering senior. Pachacamac-N.O.W., elected Dean Barrett, engineering sophomore.
In district III, (Schools of Business, Fine Arts, Education, Pharmacy, and the Graduate school), F.A.C.T.S. elected Beverly Barnhardt, fine arts freshman, Dean Warries, business junior, and Robert Casad, graduate student.
Pachacamac-N.O.W. winners in district III were Jean Almon, fine arts junior; and Charles Crawford and David Sailer, business juniors. In district IV (Schools of Law and Medicine), F.A.C.T.S. candidate Chester Lewis, College and law senior, was elected.
Socialism Unlikely Gibson Says
There is no likelihood of international socialism in the United States in the foreseeable future, Hilden Gibson, professor of political science, told the Socialist Study club Tuesday.
Listing possible paths to socialism, he said that the Socialist party might assume control. He explained that it might be effected through the building of co-operatives.
Professor Gibson predicted that all the world except the Western hemisphere would become collectivized.
He called our present economic system one of corporate property and not private property. This involves a separation of management and ownership. Liberals and socialists, however, often assume that corporate property and private property are the same.
JAMES K. LOGAN
Pach Elects Class Officers
Donovan Hull, College junior, was elected president of the senior class on the F.A.C.T.S. ticket by a margin of 98 votes.
Robert Kenney, education junior, was elected senior class vice-president on the Pachacamac-N.O.W. ticket. Suzanne Plummer, fine arts junior, was elected secretary from the F.A.C.T.S. slate, and Carol Krehbiel, College junior, was elected treasurer by Pachacamac-N.O.W. for a 50-50 split.
Junior class officers elected were straight Pachacamac-N.O.W. candidates, Grace Endacott, fine arts sophomore, was elected president, and Robert Knightly, College sophomore, vice-president. Leah Ross, College sophomore, was elected treasurer and Dale Dodge, College sophomore, treasurer.
Pachacamac-N.O.W. also won all sophomore class officers with Marilyn Miller, College freshman, elected president; Richard Comstock, education freshman, was elected vice-freshman, was elected secretary; and Sue Taylor, College freshman, treasurer.
James K. Hitt, registrar, will attend a convention of the American Association of Collegiate Regulations and Admission Officers at Houston, Texas, Monday, April 16 through Thursday, April 19.
Registrar Will Go To Houston
The convention will hold several general sessions and then divide into workshop groups. Mr.Hitt will attend the workshop on records and recording practices.
All three of the propositions voted on in the election Wednesday were defeated.
Changing the Alma Mater song to "Onward, Spirit of Kansas" was vetoed by the students in a 2,555 to 680 vote.
Students defeated the proposal to make the Jayhawker into a book issue by 117 votes. There were 1,507 votes cast for the change and 1,624 against it.
Making purchase of the Jayhawk compulsory by placing it on the student activity fee was defeated 2,341 to 905.
Must Limit War In Korea, Truman Says
Washington (U.P.)—President Tru- man left the way open today for a negotiated peace in Korea—but not at any price.
In a major defense of his foreign policy and his dismissal of Gen. Douglas MaeArthur, Mr. Truman warned Russia and Red China in a radio address last night that the United States will continue to fight in Korea as long as necessary to defeat the Communist goal of "controlling all Asia from the Kremlin."
Mr. Truman said he fired Mac-Arthur because "the cause of world peace is much more important than any individual." He made clear he considered the general's policies stood in the way of achieving peace.
The President said U.S. Far Eastern policy can be boiled down to "trying to prevent a third world war." He said, "We are ready at any time, to negotiate for a restoration of peace in the area."
"The Communist side must now choose its course of action. The Communist rulers may press the attack against us. They may take further action which will spread the conflict. They have that choice, and with it the awful responsibility for what may follow.
"The Communists also have the choice of a peaceful settlement which could lead to a general relaxation of the tensions in the Far East. The decision is theirs, because the forces of the United Nations will strive to limit the conflict if possible."
The President discussed the controversial issues of bombing Chinese Communist installations in Manchuria, bombing the Red Chinese mainland and supporting a Chinese Nationalist invasion of the mainland from Formosa. MacArthur favors all of these actions.
"If we were to do these things," Mr. Truman said, "we would be running a very grave risk of startling a general war. We would become entangled in a vast conflict on the continent of Asia and our task would become immeasurably more difficult all over the world.
"We must try to limit the war to Korea for these, vital reasons: to make sure that the precious lives of our fighting men are not wasted; to see that the security of our country and the free world is not needlessly jeopardized, and to prevent a third world war."
Walter E. Ewert, faculty advisor to the University Daily Kansan, his wife Louise, and daughter Sylvia, were killed in an automobile-truck crash near Onawa, Iowa at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. A second child, Ronald, is in the Onawa hospital where his condition is described as "fair." He had regained consciousness and X-rays were taken this morning to determine the extent of his injuries.
By JACK ZIMMERMAN
WALTER E. EWERT
Artist To Select Yearbook Queen
John Falter, Saturday Evening Post cover artist from Atchison, will select a Jayhawkier queen and two attendants from 16 candidates, Bill Howell, Jayhawk editor, announced.
Mr. Falter was chosen to judge the contest because he is a Kansas artist.
The candidates were selected from among 140 photographs submitted by K.U. women. They were judged on the basis of good features and as representatives of various types of beauty. The candidates are: Joyce Driver, Mary Ream, College freshmen; Barbara Findley, Ada Hatfield, Marcia Horn, Helen Zimmerman, Carolyn Armsey, Barbara Spaulding, College sophomores; Helen Schenck, fine arts sophomore; Jo Anne Putney, Alice Ann Sellers; College juniors; Patsy Landis, education junior; Joy Brown Vogel journalism junior; John Bigham College senior; Erdis McCarty, education senior; Courtney Carroll special student.
The queen and her two attendants will be announced in the graduation issue of the Jayhawker.
Thousands See University Roadshow
Approximately 10,000 persons saw the University roadshow "A Midsummer Night's Dream" on it's recent tour, Harold Harvey, instructor in speech, said today. Harvey estimated that 5,000 other persons were contacted by "teaser" appearances in high school assemblies.
The roadshow returned Sunday from a 12-day tour of towns in Kansas and Oklahoma.
A siege of winter weather held Kansas in a cold grasp for the third straight day today.
The truckdriver, Wilbur Kaintz, Council Bluffs, Iowa was uninjured. He told officials the Ewert car skidded on the snow-packed highway one mile north of Onawa, and crashed head on with his semitrailer truck.
Mr. Ewert and his family left Lawrence Wednesday morning, and were enroute to Marion, S.D., where Mr. Ewert's father, W. J. Ewert, is critically ill.
Mr. Ewert, assistant professor of journalism, joined the faculty of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information in reporting and supervised the in reporting and editing laboratories.
Mr. Ewert was 37, his wife 35, and Sylvia, 3. Ronald is 6.
Mr. and Mrs. Ewert were graduates of Bethel college, North Newton, Kan. After his graduation in 1837 he did public relations work at Bethel. He later went to Northwestern university, where he received his master's degree in journalism in 1940. He taught journalism at the Englewood Evening Junior college while attending Northwestern.
In 1941 Mr. Ewert went to work as police reporter on the Chicago Sun. He stayed on the Sun until 1944, when he got a job as reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune. He left the Tribune in late 1947 and taught journalism at South High school in Minneapolis until February, 1948.
Late Winter Hits Kansas
Funeral arrangements have not been completed, the Pearson Funeral home on Onawe, Iowa said.
Traces of snow were visible over much of the state and temperatures were not expected to rise above 40 degrees at most points.
The heaviest snows of the last 24 hours were at Leavenworth, where there was a one-inch blanket on the ground, and Centralia, where an equal amount of snow fell and froze.
Freezing temperatures were reported over the entire state Wednesday night after a bleak, cloudy day in which the highest temperature recorded was 45 at Emporia and Chanute.
Richard Garrett, Kansas weatherman, said there was no indication of a let-up in sight. "Cold, windy and cloudy weather will continue at least for another 36 hours," he said.
The cold weather, Garrett said, matched almost any wintry siege in Kansas this late in the year. Garrett said that in 1920 from six to 20 inches of snow fell on April 3 and 4 in Kansas. In 1907 another spring snowstorm deposited between 3 and 4 inches of snow in northern Kansas.