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Excavation has been completed and steel forms for the new Medical Sciences building are going up at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
This new building brings the departments of pathology and pharmacology to the Medical Center. They have occupied an old building one mile away from the Medical Center
THE NEW MEDICAL SCIENCES building is now under construction at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City. The sketch shows the 6-story T-shaped building which will contain the departments of pathology, pharmacology, and microbiology, and two public museums. It is being built at a cost of $1,100,000. The interior will be plain throughout in order to save money. The building is expected to be completed by April, 1952.
The state legislature appropriated $40,000. The federal government, under the National Institutes of Health, granted $200,000 for space and facilities for cancer research and $60,000 for heart research
Building Begins On Med Center Sciences Hall
The building will cost $1,100,000 and is expected to be completed by April, 1952. It will connect with the Hixon building on all floors except the third.
The basement will consist primarily of storage space. The ground floor will contain a necropsy suite and morgue, men and women student lockers, an anatomy dissecting suite, and machine shops.
On the first floor will be an auditorium seating 180 persons, the student laboratories for pathology and microbiology, a pathology museum, and another museum with educational displays on public health.
Pfc. John Warren Learned a student at the University from 1948 to 1950 was wounded in combat in Korea March 1.
On the second floor will be the department of pathology. The pharmacology department will have their laboratories and offices on the third floor. The fourth floor will house offices and laboratories of microbiology (bacteriology). On these three floors will also be substantially increased space for research.
Radio Tells KU Man Is Sent To Japan
Following a telegram from the government, Mr. and Mrs. Learned, of Lawrence, have received letters from their son, saying that he was wounded by shrapnel from a mortar shell during the Allied push above Wonju. He also wrote that he is well on the way to recovery.
Jobs Open For 25 Students
There are 25 part time jobs now open to students. Anyone interested in one of these jobs should inquire at the office of the dean of men .
The fifth floor will contain an enlargement of the present animal quarters and space for radioactive isotope research.
A message that said the 21-year-old marine was about to board a ship for Japan was relayed by amateur radio operators from Korea to America. Mrs. Learned got the message from Oscar Brown of Lawrence, an amateur operator.
Lake Success, N. Y. — (U.P.) The United Nations general assembly meeting today to ratify Paris is the site of its 1951 session. may receive a report on efforts to negotiate a Korean peace.
Grand Rapids, Mich. (U.P.)—Michigan's Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, the Republican party's top foreign affairs adviser, remained gravely ill today.
Almost eight weeks have elapsed since the assembly authorized its president, Nasrollah, Entezam of Iran, to head a three-man good offices committee to attempt negotiations with Communist China on ending the war.
Senator Vandenberg Remains Ill
Jakarta, Indonesia (U.P.)-Premier Mohammed Natsir announced today he will resign tonight. His action followed the withdrawal of two Greater Indonesia party members from the government in a dispute over the powers of local councils.
Dr. A. B. Smith, the 66-year-old lawmaker's physician and personal friend, said there was "no change" in Vandenberg's condition. Vandenberg has undergone a series of lung and spine operations since 1949 and suffered a relapse two weeks ago.
Discovery of three kinds of mammals new to science was reported in publications released today by the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History.
two of the new finds are pocket gophers from Wyoming and Colorado. They are described by Dr. E. Raymond Hall, professor of zoology; and Gordon Montague, now at the Fresno, Calif. Junior college. The latter received the master's degree in zoology from K.U. in 1948.
UN May Hear Of Peace Try
Although the committee was known to have sent several communications to the Peiping government, no reply from the Chinese Reds has been received, and the trio has given the assembly no account of its activity.
The third discovery is a burrowing insectivorous mole from northern Mexico, described by Dr. Rollin H. Baker, assistant professor of zoology. This species is the second record for a mole of any kind from Mexico. A K.U. field party found it in an isolated mountain range in the Mexican state of Coahuila, directly south of the Big Bend National park of Texas.
KU Zoologists Report Finds
Premier To Resign
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38th Parallel Only 14 Miles From UN Troops
Tokyo — (U.P.) — Two tank-led United Nations columns drove within 12 to 14 miles of Korea's 38th parallel today, but Communist rear-guard resistance stiffened north of Seoul.
New advances put eighth army columns less than 17 miles from the 38th parallel at 11 or more points along the 140-mile Korean front.
Chongpyong reservoir and its hydro-electric plant 24 miles northeast of Seoul were captured virtually intact two days ago, a belated eighth army announcement disclosed. The eight-mile-long reservoir furnished electric power for Seoul.
An eighth army communique reported little contact today with rear guards covering the retreat of up to 250,000 Chinese and Korean Reds across the 38th parallel into North Korea. Enemy troops were reported stringing barbed wire near Chorwon. 15 miles north of the parallel and possibly the anchor of the new Communist defense line.
The advancing allies swep through abandoned Communist emplacements and made record hauls of discarded enemy weapons.
However, a front dispatch said an American tank and infantry patrol jabbing north up the Seoul-Uijonbu, highway ran into Community resistance south of Uijongbu, 18 miles below the 38th parallel.
Communist rear guards threw heavy small arms, mortar, and artillery fire at the patrol from hills on either side of the highway. Puerto-Rican infantrymen drove the Reds from one hill east of the road in an attack that killed 17 out of an estimated 70 North Koreans.
There were signs of enemy positions thickly scattered through hills on each side of the valley between Seoul and Uijongbu. Air spotters said there appeared to be "thousands" of enemy troops digging in on ridges northeast of the capital.
Eleven oil paintings by Raymond J. Eastwood, professor of drawing and paintings, will be displayed during the remainder of March in the Museum of Art.
Professor'sArt Is On Display
Dr. John Maxon, director of the Museum of Art, said, "Mr. Eastwood has in his new works, coastal scenes of the Pacific in which he exhibits new developments in the soft and subtle tonalities which have brought him acclaim.
The display is being held in the small south gallery of the museum and is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 1:30 to 5 p.m. on Sunday. It is open evenings from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
"In addition," Dr. Maxon said "Mr. Eastwood shows a New England barn painted in 1930, which displays the new reality currently fashionable in eastern art circles."
Phi Alpha Delta, professional law fraternity, will initiate 16 students at a banquet at 6:45 p.m. today in the Kansas room of the Union building.
Bert Taylor of Kansas City, Mo. supreme vice-judge of the national chapter, will welcome the initiates. John Ise, professor of economics will also speak.
Views of Cape Cod, Monument Valley, Utah, and the west coast of America are featured in the exhibit.
Law Fraternity Banquet Is At 6:45 Tonight
Seniors To Pick Class Gift Friday
Members of the graduating class of 1951 will meet at 10 a.m. Friday in Fraser theater. They will decide on a class gift, and several committee chairmen will discuss plans for future class events.
Deane W. Malott, chancellor of the University, has asked all faculty members to excuse the seniors from the 10 o'clock classes.
Iranian Senate OKays Oil Bill
Tehran, Iran (U.P.)-The Iranian senate, meeting immediately after martial law was imposed throughout the country, today approved unanimously a bill to nationalize the oil industry and force British and American interests out of strategic fields on Russia's border.
The fanatic Difaiyan Islam (devotes of Islam) sect has threatened the lives of officials who oppose nationalization.
The bill was passed by the Majlis (lower house of parliament) last week. It now goes for signature to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi who declared martial law in an attempt to forestall further assassination attempts on high government officials by an extremist group which has demanded oil nationalization.
Members of the sect assassinated Premier Gen. Ali Razmara March 7. They wounded Dr. Abdul Hamid Zanganeh, Razmara's education minister, yesterday.
The senate vote was 27 to 0. Political observers said they doubted the Shah would veto the legislation under present conditions.
Under the bill, there will be a two-month study of methods for taking over the $585,000,000 Anglo-Iranian oil company installations. The government is empowered to seek the advice of foreign technicians during the take-over period.
Army Leery On UMT Bill
Washington—(U.P.)Top military men are very unhappy about key points of the house draft and universal military training (U.M.T.) bill, it was disclosed today.
The bill, written by the armed services committee, would lower the draft age from 19 to $18\frac{1}{2}$, lengthen service from 21 to 26 months, and set up a U.M.T. program for use after the emergency.
They are hoping to get some changes made in the bill before it becomes law. The bill was cleared yesterday by the house rules committee for debate in the house starting April 3.
For one thing, its six-month training program (for all young men between $18\frac{1}{2}$ and 19) would be under direction and control of a commission of five members, three of whom would be civilians.
The generals are pretty well satisfied with the bill's draft provisions, it was learned. It is the U.M.T. provision that has them upset. They are "very concerned" about two of its main points:
Military men wonder how they would fit into this. Despite the fact the bills says trainees would get "basic military training," they fear they might have little voice in saying what this would be.
Dean Leonard Axe of the School of Business will speak before the Rotary club in Cimarron today. This is the second in a series of talks by Dean Axe. He spoke at the annual dinner of the Scott City chamber of commerce Monday.
Axe To Speak In Cimarron
'Monty' Named Deputy Chief Of Pact Forces
Paris (UP) — Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Britain was named today by Gen. Dwight D Eisenhower to be deputy supremecommander of Atlantic Pact forces.
Gen. Alphonse Juin of France was named to work under Eisenhower's direct orders as commander of the strategic central European area, the probable main target o any Russian attack.
A communique issued by Eisenhower's headquarters said Atlantic Pact forces in Europe would be divided into three commands—central northern, and southern.
A British admiral was named to command the northern forces. No commander was appointed for the southern forces, but he will be an Italian general.
The northern European commander in chief will be Adm. Sir Patrick Brind of the British navy, now commander in chief of British nava forces in the Far East.
Another Briton was named Atlantic Pact air deputy to command all European air operations. He is Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Saunders.
Eisenhower also named air and naval commanders to serve under Juin in central Europe. The central European air commander is an American, Lt. Gen. Lauris Norstad, now commander in chief of U.S. air forces in Europe. The naval commander is Vice Adm. Robert Jaujard of the French navy.
In northern Europe, under Admiral Brind, Eisenhower named these subordinate commanders:
1. Commander of allied forces, Norway -Lt. Gen. Wiljelm Von Tangen -Hansteen, now chief of staff of the Norwegian army.
Montgomery served under Eisenhower during World War II as commander of the 21st army group of British and Canadian troops fighting the Germans on the northern sector of the western front.
3. Commander of allied air forces, northern Europe—Maj. Gen. Robert K. Taylor, of the U.S. air force, now chief of intelligence to the commander of U.S. forces in Germany.
2. Commander of allied forces. Denmark—Lt. Gen. Elbe Gortz, of the Danish army.
For the past year he has been commander of the Unified Military headquarters of the five Brussels Pact nations—Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg—with headquarters at Fontainebleau outside Paris.
The communique said that Eisenhower will ask the Brussels Pact nations to transfer the duties of the Fontainebleau headquarters to the Atlantic Pact command.
City Primary Vote Today
Today is primary election day for most Kansas cities. Lawrence polls opened at 6 a.m. and will close at 7 p.m. General election day will be Tuesday, April 3.
Four staff members and nine graduates of the University are candidates for positions on the Lawrence city commission or the board of education.
Polls are set up in the following places: first ward, police station at 8th and Vermont streets; second ward, Community building; third ward, No.2 fire station at 1839 Massachusetts street; fourth ward, Liberty Memorial High school; fifth ward, New York school; and sixth ward, Woodlawn school.