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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1951
GOP Leaders Want 'Mac' To Come Home And Report
Washington (U.P.)—President Truman remained silent today on the controversy about Gen. Douglas MacArthur as house Republican leaders opened a campaign to bring MacArthur home for a report to congress on the Far Eastern situation.
The best bet was that nothing would come of the G.O.P. attempt to pass a resolution urging Mr. Truman to "direct" the general to return here.
Legislators who conferred with Mr. Truman said they got the impression the president just had not made up his mind what to do about the general.
In Tokyo, a spokesman for supreme headquarters denied that U.S. Army Secretary Frank Pace, Jr., had told MacArthur to be quiet about policy matters and informed sources believe that General MacArthur has asked Secretary Pace for more troops and a free hand to use them as he sees fit to defeat the Chinese and Korean Reds.
MacArthur had a long conference with Pace Monday night shortly after the secretary's arrival in Tokyo. Usually well-informed quarters believed MacArthur made these points;
1. More U.S. troops should be sent to the Far East to bolster the United Nations fighting forces in Korea.
2. Other United Nations members should increase their contributions of manpower and equipment.
3 Present limitations on U.N forces should be removed.
4. Chinese Nationalist forces should be employed.
5. The Chinese Reds will be willing to compromise on a peace settlement only when they lose hope of a military victory.
6. Communist aggression must be dealt a telling blow now or it will soread.
7. Asia cannot be neglected while efforts are being made to build up European defenses.
Chinese Reds Turn And Fight
Tokyo (U.P.)—Chinese Communist troops turned and fought furiously in Korea today, attempting to prevent an Allied advance from reaching the huge Hwachon reservoir before they can unleash the full fury of its impounded waters.
U. S. and French infantry drove around the southwest shore of the reservoir to within one mile of the key dam, which is eight miles north of the 38th parallel, but enemy rear guards still held the sluice gates.
Front dispatches said a single company of diehard Chinese were laboring to open the massive flood gates by hand and shoot a 30-foot wall of water upon advancing Allied troops.
Fifth Air Force Hdq. in Korea reported U.S. jet aircraft shot down one Red MIG-15 and damaged two others in two separate dogfights today over northwest Korea.
It was the second straight day of air combat and no American jets were damaged.
Yokohama: southern California's national guard 40th infantry marched off a navy transport today to bolster Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Japanese occupation forces.
At Taipeh, Formosa Chinese Nationalist quarters insisted today there are at least 100,000 Soviet troops in Manchuria despite Russian denials.
Informants also charged that the Soviets are converting the Dairenport Arhut area across Korea bay from the Korean peninsula into a naval base.
At Sydney, Australian Prime Minister R. G. Menzies today defended General MacArthur's conduct of the Korean campaign and reiterated Australia's objectives in the conflict.
He said Australia's objectives were to resist aggression and maintain a strong position, to try to limit the area of conflict and to continue efforts to negotiate a settlement.
Korean Situation Be Topic Of Talk
Col. Edward F. Kumpe, professor of military science and tactics, will speak on the Korean situation at a meeting of Sigma Pi Sigma, honorary physics society, at 7:45 p.m. Thursday, in the Pine room of the University.
The public is invited to attend this talk by an authority on military affairs.
Century Of Profit
Boston—(U.P.)-Every year for 100 years the Pepperell Manufacturing Co., cotton textile firm, has paid a dividend.
Vote More Funds For Construction
The University of Kansas received appropriations totaling $15,328,632 from the 1951 state legislature.
The two biggest single items were sums allowed for construction of the field house and the science building. The 1951 legislature voted an additional $1,863,000 for the field house, bringing the total for the building to $2,613,000. (The grant from the 1949 legislature made up the other $750,000.)
About $679,000 was okayed for the science building to go with the $1,972,000 previously appropriated, to bring the total for that building to more than $2,600,000.
The budget allowance for the University totaled $9,505,932 for 1952 and 1953. The allowance for 1952 is $4,724,466, and the remaining $4,781-466 will finance the school in 1953. However, Governor Arn vetoed a
Alva Caster and Gene Rogers, engineering freshmen, have been pledged to Theta Tau, professional engineering fraternity.
Theta Tau Pledges Two
$150,000 request for laboratory apparatus, which means the total for 1952 is actually $4,649,466 and for 1953 $4,706,466.
The University Medical center in Kansas City was allowed $1,533,950 for 1952 and $1,746,750 for 1953, or a total of $3,280,700.
Other measures of interest to persons at the University are:
1—Social security enabling legislation which allows state, county, and city employees to gain benefits from social security. It becomes effective January 1, 1951, and a person need work under it only 18 months before he can make a claim.
2—Increased teacher benefits. Better retirement benefits and a ruling that forces a school to notify a teacher by April 15 if he is to be rehired for the following school term.
3—The first step toward a child
3—The first step toward a child mental health hospital at the K.U. medical center.
Choral Group Performs In KC
The University chorale, directed by Clayton Krehbiel, instructor in music education, presented a program of eight chorale music Sunday in the Washington Avenue Methodist church in Kansas City, Mo.
Leo Horacek, instructor in music education, was the guest trumpet soloist. Joanne Stokes, fine arts junior, was the accompanist for both Mr. Horacek and the chorale.
Members of the chorale are: sopranos, Joyce Rohrer, Myrna Lynch, and Phyllis McFarland; altos, Joan Baur, Jeannine Neihart, Joyce Friesen, Leah Ross, Alberta James, and Polly Owen; tenors, Fred Tarry, William Oldham, and Willard Straight: bass-baritones, Don George, Herbert Skillman, James Ralston, Dale Moore, and Keith Riggs.
The Brains Behind the "Electric Brains"
How Du Pont Research engineers apply electronics to chemical manufacture
When you hear that a scientist works for a chemical company, it's natural to assume he is a chemist. Oddly enough, the Du Pont Company employs about as many engineers as chemists for normal technical work. Many are chemical engineers. But when it comes to basic research on instrumentation—a very important activity—both chemists and chemical engineers are in the minority.
This fundamental work is largely carried out in a laboratory of the Engineering Department, where electrical engineers, physicists and other scientists are deeply involved in electronics studies. They have some amazing devices to their credit—devices for monitoring industrial operations continuously and automatically.
Some of their ideas are spurred by a need in an existing plant. But the design of a new one may also lean heavily on novel instruments. Take, for instance, a new Du Pont plant that uses cyanides. Of course, these compounds are very poisonous. So
J. Packard Laird, B.S. in M.E., Princeton 1942, operates Dielectric Yarn Gage in order to determine small changes in the denier of synthetic textile yarns.
when the plant was being designed, engineers were aware of the importance of detecting accidental contamination of the cooling water. In fact, the whole question of getting into production hinged on the problem of dealing with plant effluents.
Chemical-electronic watchdog Once the only way to detect a fraction of a part per million of cyanide
Fred R. Studer (left), B. Met E., Resnelser Polytechnic Institute 1960, examines a Pressure Strain Recorder with Allen R. Furbeck, E.E., Princeton 1939.
was to raise fish in water containing plant effluents. But this required a staff of experts to check constantly on the health of the fish. It was too slow and inaccurate. So the engineers developed a "chemical-electronic watchdog." Twenty-four hours a day, it automatically analyzes for cyanide to one part per million. If an excessive amount is present, it rings an alarm bell. Periodically, the machine pumps cyanide through itself to be sure it is registering. All the plant men have to do is take readings occasionally and fill the tanks with reagents once a week.
This is just one of many electronic devices developed by Du Pont research engineers. Others—ranging
DID YOU KNOW...
While Du Pont is the largest manufacturer of diversified chemicals in the U.S., its share of the total chemical business is only about seven per cent. It has one to fifteen major competitors for all its major product lines.
Richard G. Jackson (left), B.S. in Ch. E., Columbia 1942, and Gregory L. Laserson, Ph.D. in M.E., Columbia 1949, test an Infrared Gas Analyzer which may be used to continuously analyze and control any infrared absorbing gas in a mixture.
from ultraviolet gas analyzers and multivariable recorders to nylon denier gages—play a vital part in improving production methods. Many of them not only "observe" continuously, but automatically correct anything that goes wrong.
Research engineers at work
The term "research engineer," by the way, is a loose one. It may refer to an electronics engineer working on a new photo-multiplier circuit or a physicist using his optics and spectrophotometry in designing a color-matching instrument. It may cover the activities of a physical chemist developing a continuous turbidimetric analysis-or a mechanical engineer evaluating a pneumatic servomechanism.
For the versatile young scientist, instrumentation research offers a fine opportunity to turn his talents into faster, better and safer production in the chemical industry.
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