1951
U N I V E R S I T Y D A I L Y
Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Year No.114
Thursday, March 22, 1951
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Argentine Newspaper Man Still Missing
Buenos Aires, Argentina (U.P.) — The whereabouts of Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz, director of the independent newspaper La Prensa, remained a mystery today after his "detention" had been ordered by the Argentine congress intervention committee.
Police and members of the congressional intervention committee said reports that Gainza Paz had been arrested were "absolutely false."
The independent newspaper La Nacion said the Gainza Paz home had been placed under surveillance by police both within and without the building Wednesday, but that Gainza Paz had not arrived home at the time the police reached there.
Today official sources still had not confirmed rumors that the publisher had been arrested and lodged in the congressional building.
La Prensa colleagues of Gainza Paz said he was all right and that they did not believe he had been arrested.
congress Reports that Gainza Paz had been arrested circulated after the intervention committee, which took over La Prensa's main offices Tuesday, had ordered him detained for 15 days on charges of contempt of congress.
The detention order was based on a statement made in the publisher's shaft challenging the right of con-
halt challenging the right of concess or its intervention committee to prevent the publication of La Prensa.
The statement said the committee "Lacks authority to intervene in the newspaper and to carry on an inquiry which prevents the printing and circulation of La Presna."
To Discuss Anthropology
A panel discussion on "What is Anthropology," will be presented by three members of the department of sociology and anthropology in a radio broadcast at 9:45 am. Sunday, March 25, over KLWN
The speakers will be Carlyle S Smith, assistant professor of sociology and assistant curator of anthropology; Rupert I. Murrill, instructor in sociology and anthropology, and Lawrence E. Adkins assistant instructor in sociology.
On Sunday, April 1, the fourth talk in the series will be by Miss Esther Twente, chairman of the department of social work. She will talk on "Old Age in Kansas." Miss Twente joined the University faculty in 1837.
Straw Hat Game Scheduled Tonight
Possession of the straw hat will be the reward of the annual basketball game between Alpha Kappa Psi, professional commerce fraternity, and Delta Sigma Pi, professional business fraternity, in Robinson gymnasium tonight.
The game was originated in 1949. The winner is presented a straw hat with a large red and blue band and the name of the winning fraternity written across the top. Delta Sigma Pi won last year.
Student Jobs Still Available
Fourteen jobs are still open for students interested in part-time work. Students should inquire at the employment office in the office of the dean of men.
Holiday Hours For Union Listed
The following changes will be made in Union hours during the vacation.
The Union ballroom cafeteria will close after lunch Thursday and will not reopen until Monday, April 2.
The Hawk's Nest will be closed Monday, March 26, through Saturday. March 31.
The Union cafeteria will remain open during vacation. Breakfast will be served from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m.; lunch, from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m., and dinner from 5 to 6:15 p.m. The regular Sunday hours will be observed.
Ike Waits On Senate Debate
Washington (U.P.)—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower has refused to pledge a single American soldier to the Atlantic Pact army pending the outcome of senate debate, senate Democratic leader Ernest W. McFarland said today.
The Arizona Democrat told a reporter that General Ike has restricted his functions as Pact commander to organizing his staff and has rebuffed all inquiries from other Pact nations as to what American forces will be available and when.
Eisenhower, McFarland said, apparently believes that he is unable to proceed beyond this point until the present senate controversy is resolved by a "decisive vote," and currently is working under "heavy handicap."
This information, McParland said has come from state and defense department officials in close touch with the general's headquarters at Paris.
It was recalled that Eisenhower on his recent visit here told legislators that his international command task would be "impossible" without widespread congressional and popular support.
In a speech prepared for senate delivery Sen. Edwin C. Johnson, (D.-Colo.), said the United States should pour troops, guns and atombomb carrying planes into Turkey to hold Middle East oil reserves and blitz Russia if war comes.
He urged the senate to abandon the building of an Atlantic Pact army to protect Western Europe on grounds that it would afford merely a "suicide squad," and be a display of "miserable weakness" which might invite Stalin to start a war.
Toppeka (U.P.)—Herb Barr, prominent Leoti Stockman and wheat operator, was a new member of the Kansas Board of Regents today, subject to senate approval.
Leoti Man Named Regent Member
The senate late yesterday agreed to vote April 2, on resolutions approving the dispatch of four additional American divisions.
Gov. Edward F. Arn nominated Barr to replace Jerry E. Driscoll, Russell Democrat, as he sent the senate a list of 37 nominations for appointive state offices.
When pressed for comment on his action, Arn told newsmen: "In my opinion, Mr. Barr will make a better member of the state board of regents."
Other regents, both Republican and Democratic, were continued subject to senate confirmation.
Gov. Arn also changed one Democrat member on the forestry, fish and game commission. He put Frank F. Young of Chanute on the commission in place of James R. Peck of Independence.
Financial Bill May Hold Solons Over Easter
Topeca (U.P.) - Plans to adjourn the 1951 legislative session by Easter went aglimmering today after house and senate leaders held hasty unofficial conferences on pending problems of the session.
The delay in adjournment was indicated immediately after a unity conference among most of the 105 members of the house and Gov. Edward F. Arn.
House speaker Lawrence Gibson said "I don't see how we can possibly finish in time to adjourn this week." An official decision will be made at a noon meeting.
Twenty senators openly condemned Gov. Arn's action in killing a financial reorganization bill which had passed the senate by a 33 to nothing count. The governor ordered the bill killed while it was in a house committee. Senators asked that the bill be immediately brought from the house state affairs committee where its death was practically assured.
The conference, held behind closed doors, followed by less than 24 hours an open break between half the membership of the senate and administration forces.
They quoted Gov. Arn as saying "we don't want to rush into this thing without adequate planning as to means and methods."
The meeting adjourned hastily without the lawmakers asking questions or presenting arguments House members said they had been told not to relate what had happened outside the doors of the meeting.
When the house met a few minutes later representatives seemed anxious to comply with the governor's requests.
A measure which would direct another two year study of the financial reorganization proposal was brought to the top of the house calendar from its tailend position.
The measure, a substitute for the original bill to put the reorganization in force, had been recommended by the governor earlier. It was receiving attention on the floor of the house by mid-morning.
Baur Explains Class Structure
Karl Marx's economic concept of classes were refuted by a sociological theory presented by Edward Jackson Baur, associate professor of sociology, in Green hall Wednesday.
Speaking at a meeting of the Socialist Study club, Professor Baur explained present class structure as a system whereby people are grouped in classes with which they identify themselves. This does not necessarily coincide with the economic divisions as evolved by Marx, he told the group.
Classes have arisen in the United States, he explained, as a result of division of labor and specialization in a complex economy. He termed the possibility of dissolving classes in this country as "a good ideal."
"There is no conquest when one group merely encloses or surrounds 'another," he elaborated. "The surrounded group merely becomes dominated by the other."
In conquest, he said there occurred the "subjagation of sedentary people by an invading group, the invading group becoming the ruling class."
WEATHER
KANSAS: Partly cloudy tonight and Friday, warmer, both tonight and Friday, low tonight 45-50 west, 50-55 east. High Saturday 75-78 east, 80-82 west.
'Daze' In Production Show To Be May1,2
"College Daze" is in production. Rehearsals for the annual allstudent musical began this week. The show will be given Tuesday, May 1 and Wednesday, May 2.
The script for this year's "College Daze" was written by Win Koerper and Barbara Wood, College junior, and Keith Wilson, third year law student. It is sponsored by Student Union Activities.
The first "College Daze" was presented in 1948. It all started in November, 1947, when the Student Union Activities committee decided to sponsor an all-student musical review about college life.
The job of writing music, lyrics, and script, producing, directing, and staging the show turned out to be tremendous. The show was presented on schedule to a near-capacity crowd.
Because the job involved so much work, a number of the cast and production staff failed to meet scholastic requirements. As a result, the entire Union activities committee was banned as a recognized student organization from May 19 until Sept. 22. 1948.
Now writing of the show is begun in the summer before the regular school term or at the beginning of the fall semester.
The first show consisted of skits
on current campus scenes. It was written by Jack Moorhead with music arranged by Jim McCaig. It was given only one night. The show was entitled "College Daze" and this name has been taken as the name of the annual show.
Soon after the S.U.A. was reinstated plans began for another all-student musical. The second "College Daze" was written by William Conboy, and Carolyn Campbell, and was named "Ghost of a Chance."
"Ghost of a Chance" was given four nights in Fraser theater to full houses.
It was a musical fantasy about a mystery story writer who bought a haunted house to give his stories atmosphere. He fell in love with a beautiful ghost who came to haunt him. The plot followed their trip to Ghostland and romantic return to earth.
Vacation Hours Set For Libraries
The 1950 production, "West of Abilene," was a western farce built around an unscrupulous character, Snake McCoy. The show, written by Craig Hampton, was presented four nights in Fraser theater.
Watson library hours during the Easter vacation will be as follows:
Saturday, March 24, 7:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, March 25, closed.
Monday, March 26, through Friday, March 30, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 31, 9 a.m. to noon. Sunday, April 1, 2 p.m. to 10 p.m.
The Lindley, Law, and Engineering libraries will be open week days from 9 a.m. to noon, and from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. The Lindley and Law libraries will be open on Sunday, April 1, from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m.
NYC Official Resigns Post
New York (U.P.)—James J. Moran, central figure in one of the city's biggest political scandals, bowed to an ultimatum from Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri today and resigned his $15,000 a year lifetime post as water commissioner.
In reply to Impellitteri's demand that he resign by noon or be fired, the longtime friend and political intimate of Ambassador William O'Dwyer informed Impellitteri he was resigning "with a stomach that can no longer digest the hypocracies of so-called 'politicians.'"
His letter of resignation contained no mention of the $55.00 which the president of the Uniformed Firemen's association told the senate crime investigating committee yesterday he gave Moran as "political contributions" and "good will gifts" during Moran's tenure as deputy fire commissioner in the O'Dwyer administration.
Moran denied under oath before the committee that he received any money while he was associated with O'Dwyer's political career, which started as Brooklyn's district attorney and ended in the mayor's office in 1945. He specifically denied receiving gifts from the firemen.
Moran's letter of resignation was brief. He charged that Impellitteri had been out to get him politically since ODwyer appointed him to the post shortly before the then mayor resigned to become ambassador to Mexico.
O'Dwyer, too, denied the testimony of John P. Crane, president of the Firemen's association, that he received $10,000 as a contribution for his campaign for re-election as mayor in 1949.
El Centro, Calif.—(U.P.)—Imperial county authorities began setting the stage today for an attempt to execute killer Billy Cook under California law.
Impellitteri himself declined to appear before the senate committee yesterday, which got some of the most explosive testimony of its eight-day stand here from Crane.
FACTS Deadline Is Extended
Booths for the collection of applications are in Strong rotunda and the Union lounge.
The deadline for filing nomination applications for the F.A.C.T.S. primary election has been extended to 6 p.m. today.
The deadline was moved up to allow students, especially those living in unorganized houses, more opportunity to file applications, James Logan, party chairman, explained.
At the party meeting Wednesday night 38 applications were filed for 27 All Student Council and class offices. All of the names entered will appear on the primary ballot. A complete list of candidates will be published as soon as it is compiled.
New Murder Trial Faces Cook
The primary is scheduled for Tuesday, April 3. Polling places will be in Fraser hall and the Union.
Cook's first trial ended abruptly when federal judge Stephen S. Chandler accepted the testimony of psychiatrists who found Cook "incurably insane."
The 23-year-old escaped the death sentence from a federal court yesterday at Oklahoma City, but was sentenced to 300 years in prison for slaying five members of the Carl Mosser family.
California authorities indicated they hoped to get a death sentence at his trial here for the fatal shooting of salesman Robert H. Dewey.
U. S. District Attorney Robert Shelton, angered by Chandler's decision, telephoned the justice department in Washington and obtained permission to return Cook to California.
District Attorney Don C. Bitler said he will start immediate preparations for Cook's trial on murder charges.
Cook is accused of the murder and robbery of Dewey, a Seattle, Wash., salesman, and the robbery and kidnapping of Riverside county deputy Homer Waldrip.
Vote Registration Stops Friday
Faculty members and students who were not registered for the Lawrence primary election Tuesday, must register before 5 p.m. Friday in order to vote in the general election April 3.