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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MARCH 8.
Not All Of Our Soldiers Are On Front-Line Assignment
Washington (U.P.)—We get the idea that all our fighting men do to win a war is pull a trigger. That's not true.
A cog in the wheel department at the Pentagon said the army has a lot of other jobs and is on the job in all of them. The man, who would just as soon be called here on out as General Jones-number of stars unspecified-gave this information;
We have soldiers assigned to protect all installations and facilities in the United States. Also the territories and the District of Columbia.
Other soldiers are under orders to take over when and if strikes develop in transportation, telephone, telegraph, or so forth.
The army also has trained a corps of wide-awake engineers who are prepared to protect us on the waterways of the United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. They know all about harbors and streams and flood control on inland rivers and irrigation developments and helped build some of them.
It calls for fueling, supplying, and food stuffing for the Panama zone and putting things like "bandaids," sea-sick pills, and Mae Wests aboard ships sailing for there.
Some of the army's other duties the general said, include the removal of wrecks from navigable waters, establishment and regulation of anchorage grounds, preservation of the American falls at Niagara, and the army's job at the Panama Canal—where it handles maintenance, care, and operation.
Then, too, it must look out for immigration service, customs, post offices, police and fire protection, steamboat inspection—and a lot of other things civilians can't spell.
The fellow who gave all this dope says a man in service still has to know how to peel a spud, skin off a barnacle and know how to draw a bead on a river rat if one shows up.
Britain Saves Money
London (U.P.)—The Bank of England has begun ironing Britain's paper money to make it go further. Until recently all notes turned in by the big banks were replaced by new ones, but now they are cleaned, pressed and re-issued to save the government money.
Jewell Is A Jeweler
Newton, Mass. (U.P.)—Appropriately enough, M. C. Jewell operates a jewelry business here.
Winfield To Host University Debaters
The University debate squad will attend a debate tournament in Winfield Friday and Saturday.
The tournament is sponsored by St. John college at Winfield. Twenty-five schools will be represented.
The question to be discussed at the tournament is: "Resolved that non-communist nations form a new international organization."
The following members of the University debate squad will attend the tournament: William Crews, College freshman; Richard Sheldon, College freshman; William Nulton, College sophomore; Mary Anne O'Neill, College freshman; and Joseph Conklin, College freshman.
Western Civ Proctors Needed
Graduate students or fall 1951 graduates are eligible for western civilization proctorships.
Anyone interested can apply this month in the western civilization office, annex C Strong hall.
More than two-thirds of the 2,730 teachers in New Mexico schools have at least one college degree.
Collazo Appeals Death Sentence
Washington. —(U.P.)— Oscar Collazo, Puerto Rican assassin whose dreams of island independence are due to be snuffed out in the electric chair, pinned hopes for his life today on an appeal to higher courts.
The 37-year-old Puerto Rican revolutionary was convicted late yesterday of the first degree murder of a white house guard in the attempted assassination of President Truman on Nov. 1.
The verdict by the federal court jury of nine women and three men made the death sentence mandatory. The jury deliberated one hour and 42 minutes.
Collazo's court-appointed attorney Leo A. Royer said he would file a motion for a new trial within five days. There was little hope it would be granted, Rover said, however, he intended to take the case to the supreme court if necessary.
Collazo was found guilty of slaying Pvt. Leslie Coffelt in the gun battle in front of blair house last Nov. 1.
Actually, Griselio Torresola, Collazo's accomplice, fired the shot which killed Coffelt. Under the law, Collazo could be judged equally guilty. Torresola died in the gun battle.
Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough will pronounce the mandatory death sentence in about a week after ruling on Rover's expected motion for a new trial.
If appeals to the higher courts
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fail, Collazo's only hope would be clemency from Mr. Truman. There has been no indication from the white house that commutation of the death penalty is being considered.
After hearing the jury rule "guilty, as charged" Collozar was returned to the District of Columbia jail cell he has occupied since recovering from a chest wound suffered in the shooting.
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OT Professor Inspects Three Denver Hospitals
Miss Nancie B. Greenman, a tant professor of occupational t apy, returned Sunday from an spection tour of hospitals in Der Colo.
Miss Greenman visits General hospital as a poet for practical training of occupational therapy stud
Her trip also included stop Fitzsimmons army hospital, and Denver Children's hospital, w she spoke to several former students training there.
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