University Daily Kansan
47th Year No. 148
Tuesday, May 16, 1950
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Topeka, Ks.
Laboratory Theater Will Give Wilder's 'Our Town' Tonight And Wednesday
Life, love, and death in a small New England town are the principal ingredients in Thornton Wilder's play "Our Town," which is being presented at 8:15 p.m. today and Wednesday in the Little theater in Green hall.
Using scenery that suggests the scene rather than reproduces it exactly and effective lighting, the cast of 21 make the town of Grover's Corners come to life. The stage manager acts as guide and master of ceremonies, talks directly to the audience and introduces the actors. The play, which is the first three-act production to be presented by the University Players laboratory theater, was selected because of its simplicity in staging and its adaptability to a small theater.
Don Harling, director; Milton Commons, production manager; John White, stage manager; Katy Coad and Barbara Donovan, costumes; Mary Beth Moore, prometer.
The production crew will include
Members of the cast will be Ernest Coombs, stage manager; Dick Grey, Dr. Gibbs; Bettie Sage, Mrs. Gibbs; Phyllis Clegg, Mrs. Webb; Ann Nelson, Emily Webb; Raymond Beery, Wally Webb; Carolyn Oliver, Rebecca Gibbs; Tom Pane, George Gibbs; Bob Allen, professor of history; Harvey Jetmore, Mr. Webb; Tom Welsh, Si Crowell; John White, Bill Warren; Ronald Sunbye, Howie Newsome; Edward House, Joe Stodard; Lee Stone, Sam Craig; Melba Cantrell, Mr. Soames.
Supporting members of the cast are Louise Hamilton, Nona Prettyman, Frank La Ban, and Leah Ross.
Tickets are now on sale in room 1. Green hall, for 50 cents.
Small Audience Hears Excellent Band Concert
Bv DALE S. ROMIG
Band concerts are not known to attract large audiences here, and Monday's concert by the University Concert band was no exception. If excellence could produce audiences, however Hoch auditorium would have been nearly full.
The band, directed by Russell L. Wiley, professor of band and orchestra, played a distinctive concert that ranged from modern to classic in style and romantic to nationalistic in content.
The program opened with a work called the "Fresques Suite" written by Haydn Wood. The piece seemed interesting and well played. It was divided into three parts called "Vienna, 1913," "Sea Shanties," and "Le Kiosque de Hyde Park." The piece had some fine muted trumpet passages, and was based on folk tunes that Wood had gathered in various places, Professor Wiley said.
"Capriccio Espagnole," a five part feat in orchestration by Rimsky-Korsakov, was handled adroitly with an agile interplay o solo instruments, notably the French horn and flute in the "Quartet and Variations."
Two soloists appeared on the program—each showing a good bit of talent on his instrument. The first was a trombonist, Neill Humfeld, education senior, who played the solo in the rhythmic "Fantasia di Concerto" by Boccalari.
The other, Tom Lovitt, fine arts sophomore, performed the cornet solo in "Hungarian Melodies" by Vincent Bach.
Campus Streets Will Be Resurfaced By Graduation
The program closed with a spirited, colorful presentation of Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture." With the aid of a few tympanic devices plus background gunshots, Professor Wiley produced a great amount of realism in the piece.
The Constant Construction company bid of $44,890 was accepted today for the resurfacing, repairing and widening of campus streets at the University, J. J Wilson, K.U. business manager, announced.
The work will start as soon as materials arrive from southern Kansas. Since the railroad strike has ended, the materials should move immediately, an official of the Constant Construction company said today. The resurfacing will be completed in time for commencement.
The resurfacing will begin at the west end of Memorial drive on West Campus road, and extend the entire length of Jayhawk drive and north on Oread avenue to 13th street. A second stretch to be resurfaced will be on Mississippi from 13th street across Jayhawk drive down to the newer paving at the library and power plant.
Blake halls will be resurfaced to Lilac lane. The driveway from Oread to Mississippi behind the Union building and completion of the parking apron on West 16th street to Michigan street are the other projects.
The one-way drive to Fraser and
Part of the circle at the intersection of Jayhawk drive and West Campus road will be widened, and West Campus road will also be widened north to the Memorial drive entrance. The northeast corner of the Jayhawk drive-Mississippi intersection will also be widened.
World Wide News
Assemble Airlift For Winnipeg
Washington, —(U.P.) Harold G Robinson, chief sleuth for the California Crime commission, today was appointed to head the investigation staff for the senate's $150,000 inquiry into organized crime.
Robinson Heads Inquiry
Robinson, a former F.B.I. agent, worked from 1941 to 1945 for the senate war investigating committee, which once was headed by President Truman.
Cairo—(U.P.) — The crown council advised today that King Farouk's sister, Princess Fathia, should be required to leave the commoner husband she married in San Francisco.
Winnipeg, Man.—(U.P.)—The federal government today organized a gigantic airlift capable of removing the remaining residents from this flood-threatened city should the Red river break through the remaining dikes.
Advise Fathia To Separate
The decision rests with King Farouk, who earlier criticized the marriage of his sisters and his mother. The council acts only in an advisory capacity.
The council also advised that Queen Mother Nazli's properties should be seized because she sanctioned the marriage of Fathia, 19, and Riad Ghali.
The city's remaining 20 miles of dikes were weakening under the peak pressure of the river's thrusting 30-mile-an-hour current. A 30.1 foot flood crest was pounding them. The army warned that the zero hour was at hand. Ten main dikes already had been smashed.
Chicago Editor Dies
The federal air transport board assembled enough military, commercial, and private planes—together with their pilots—to fly 9,000 persons a day out of Winnipeg. Almost one third of the city's 320,000 residents already had fled.
New York, —(U.P) -Glenn Griswold, first editor of the Chicago Journal of Commerce and for the past five years publisher of Public Relations News, died yesterday at his home here.
Griswold, 61, was widely known as a leading business publisher and authority on public relations.
Firemen's Union Ends RR Strike
Chicago, May 16—(U.R.)—The Locomotive Firemen's union ended its coast-to-coast strike today and the four crippled railroads raced to get trains back on full schedules by nightfall.
The strike was ended during a nightlong negotiating session in which the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineen abandoned its demand for an additional
fireman on big multiple-unit diesel engines.
In return, the railroads agreed to submit two other issues to routine arbitration under the Railway Labor law which will be binding on both parties.
In one issue, the union has demanded that a fireman be placed aboard 200 small "teapot" switch diesels now manned only by an en-
Local Church Assures Russian D.P.'s Of A Home And Jobs In Lawrence
A family of displaced persons from the Russian Ukraine is being brought to Lawrence by the Plymouth Congregational church which has raised the funds to bring the family from Europe and guaranteed that a home and jobs will be found for them.
The five members of the Ivan Kiosow family will arrive in New York city today and will probably come to Lawrence the latter part of next week, according to Clayton Crosier, who was chairman of the Plymouth social action committee last year when the project was initiated.
Plymouth church has provided all the assurances required under the "DP" law. Kiosow, the head of the family, will work as a gardener at Ward's greenhouse and nursery. Housing will be available June 1 on a farm adjoining North Lawrence: The church is paying the family's transportation from New York to Lawrence, and women's groups of the church have collected much of the furniture and articles needed to set up housekeeping.
The Kiosws are a farm family from the Russian Ukraine and after the Germans conquered it in 1942 the family was taken to Germany where Kiossw worked as a plasterer. The children of Kiossw are both 53 years old, Maria, the elder daughter, is 24 and Feodora is 14. The son, Zinwaej, is 12.
gineer. Both sides agreed that "teapots" now manned by firemen would continue to carry them, notwithstanding the arbitration results.
The union said the railroads further agreed to assign firemen on any new switch engines put into service. The roads had nothing to say on this matter, however.
The Kiosmos will be the second DP family in Douglas county. Lost fall a Hungarian family was brought to the Lone Star community by church groups there.
The three children speak German as well as Ukrainian Russian. None of the family has more than a smattering of English.
D. B. Robertson, president of the brotherhood, sent telegrams to locals throughout the nation advising the 18,000 striking firemen to halt their picketing and return to work.
The second dispute to be submitted to arbitration involves union charges that the companies are violating various working rules.
Santa Fe Strikers Return To Work
Topeka, Kan., May 16—(U.P.) Settlement of the railroad strike sent a small section of Santa Fe's 2,900 idled workers in Topeka back to their jobs today.
A conference was called in Chicago to reach a decision on the return of the bulk of the employees, the 2,500 men furloghed from the railroad's giant shops here.
About half the 400 workers in Santa Fe's office headquarters for the eastern lines were called back by telephone after the firemen's walkout ended early this morning. Most were employees in the car service department
Junior Wins Taylor Award
The Danny Taylor scholarship award for 1950-51 will go to Joyce Duane Holmberg, engineering junior, Dean T. DeWitt Carr of the School of Engineering, and Architecture announced today.
This year's award will be $50. The scholarship was established the past year by Dr. C, F. F. Taylor of Norton, and friends, in memory of his son, Daniel Webster Taylor. Taylor was an engineering student at the University who lost his life in an automobile accident.
Holmberg was announced as the highest ranking junior, academically, in the school of engineering and architecture at the annual Honors convolution in April. He was elected this spring to membership in Tau Bet Pi and Sigma Tau, honorary engineering fraternities.
Kennedy Installed As Inter-Dorm Head
Patricia Kennedy, College sophomore, was installed as president of the Women's Inter-dorm council at a candlelight service Monday.
Other officers installed were Diane Johnson, College junior, vice-president; Evelyn White, education junior, secretary- treasurer; and Johnne Lou Shafer, College sophomore, social chairman.
Three Quads Still Live
Kirksville, Mo., —(U.P.)— One of quadruplets born late last night to a 19-year-old Kirksville mother died early this morning, but the other three—two boys and a girl—are "doing quite nicely," Dr. Martin L, Riemann said.
The parents are Mr. and Mrs. Dean Potter. She is 19, and less than two years ago gave birth to twins, both of whom died, Dr. Riemann said.
"The quadrupets were a bit premature," Dr. Riemann said, "and so we placed them in incubators immediately."
The father is a laborer, according to Dr. Riemann.
"We suspected triplets," Dr. Riemann said, "but we were surprised."
Seeks End To UN Deadlock
Moscow, May 16- (U.P.)- UN Secretary-General Trygve Lie conferred today with Wang Chia-hsiang, Communist China's ambassador to Moscow. Wang called on Lie while diplomatic circles still were speculating on the Secretary-General's 90-minute conference last night with Soviet Premier Josef Stalin.
Lie said before his departure for Moscow that he intended to seek a solution to the deadlock resulting from Russia's refusal to attend UN meetings at which representatives of Nationalist China were present. Russia has pressed for the seating of Peiping representatives in the UN. His other avowed objective was to discuss means of easing the east-west cold war.
Charles Hall To Be IFC President For Next School Year
Charles Hall, Phi Delta Theta, was elected president of the InterFraternity council Monday night at the final meeting of the council for the spring semester.
Other officers elected were vicepresident, Bill Van Bebber, Acacia;secretary, David Sailor, Alpha TauOmega; treasurer, Donald Signa,Kappa Sigma; members at large onthe executive council—John Keller,Sigma Chi; Dale Helmers, SigmaAlpha Epsilon; Bruce Zuercer,Sigma Nu, and Joseph Wimsatt, PhiKappa.
A certified list of all fraternity membership will be turned in to the office of the dean of men by Wednesday, June 24. The roster must be signed by the president of each fraternity.
Final plans for the council's Mid-Century ball were made. The ball will be at the Lawrence Country club, 9 p.m. Friday.