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US Grand Jury Hears Charges Against Maragon
Washington. Dec. 21—(U.P.)The government Tuesday laid before a federal grand jury evidence to back up a charge that John F. Maragon perjured himself before the senate committee investigating "5 per centers."
Although the government completed its presentation Tuesday, assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Murphy said the grand jury would not act on it before Tuesday, Jan. 3.
The dapper, fast-talking business agent—a one-time close friend of Mai. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, the White House military aide—is accused of lying under cath to the senate committee the past summer when it was investigating Washington "influence salesmen."
At a secret committee session Maragon gave testimony, later made public, that he never represented anyone doing business with the government and that he had only two bank accounts, both here.
The witnesses Tuesday included Milton Poland, Milwaukee insurance man, and his nephew, Harold Ross, head of the Allied Molasses company, Perth Amboy, N.J. They had told the committee they gave Maragon $1,320 in fees and expense money to try to get the firm out of a sugar quota jam with the agriculture department.
George Chadwick, an attorney for George Dawson who said he hired Maragon after the war to help his firm, Trans-America Trading incorporated, get surplus war material, also testified Tuesday. Dawson is suing Maragon for $8,000 he said he paid to Maragon. The suit contends Maragon never got any material for the firm.
Carmine Bellino, of the committee staff, testified at the investigation that Maragon opened an account in the National Bank of Commerce, San Antonio, Texas, in 1943. In 1944 and 1945, Bellino testified, deposits were $11,723 and $26,303, respectively.
And, Bellino said, Maragon's deposits in all accounts for the years 1943 through 1948 totalled $119,608. Maragon, the senators were told, said his income for the years 1945 to 1948 averaged only $6,000 a year.
Government Bars Trips In Hungary
Washington, Dec. 21—(U.P.) The United States Tuesday barred travel by private American citizens in Hungary "until further notice" because of Hungary's "arbitrary and inhumane" action in arresting Robert Vogeler of New York.
The United States handed a long and blistering note to the Hungarian foreign office in Eudapest and gave a copy simultaneously to Hungarian minister Imre Horvath in Washington.
The note sharply denounced Vogeler's arrest on Nov. 18.
Chancellor Greets Students By Cable
Chancellor Deane W. Malott, who is now attending the Ameri-
cation conference in New Delhi, India, has sent holiday greetings to the students and faculty by cable. The cleagram is as follows:
"From this ancient seat of other cultures, Mrs. Malott and I extend to the students, faculty, and staff our best wishes for a merry Christmas and a happy new year."
Deane W. Malott"
The Holy Land Desires Peace
Jerusalem. Dec. 21. — (U.P.) — An American marine general who administers the truce in the Holy Land has told Arabs and Jews that his "Christmas wish" is for peace and goodwill between them.
Brig. Gen. William E. Riley, chief of staff of the United Nation mission in Palestine, said in a Christmas message released by his Jerusalem headquarters that understanding between the two peoples is growing and all disputes "can be settled peacefully if both sides want peace."
Serving on Riley's truce supervision staff today are 50 American army, navy, and marine personnel who represent a cross-section of the military in California and from Texas to Maine. All of them volunteered for the job.
Many of them planned today to attend Christmas eve ceremonies at the church of the Nativity at Bethlehem.
Javhawkers Available Todav
Students may pick up the second issue of the Jayhawker in the Jayhawker office in the Union this afternoon.
Union President Asks Truman To Fire Official
Washington, Dec. 21.-(U.P.)-Albert J. Fitzgerald, president of the left-wing United Electrical Workers union, asked President Truman Tuesday to fire Robert N. Denham as general counsel of the National Labor Relations board and to investigate the board.
The demand came after his union had called off a federal court fight to prevent the government from holding bargaining elections in the electrical industry.
Fitzgerald charged that Denham and the board plan "to destroy existing collective bargaining contracts."
The U.E. and the new, right-wing C. I. O. International Union of Electrical Workers are fighting for the right to represent workers in the plants where U.E. now holds contracts.
The U. E. withdrew its petition after Denham disclosed this morning that he changed certain instructions given his regional offices in connection with hearings on the elections. Three hearings are scheduled to be the General Motors plant in Dayton, Ohio, the Sperry Gyroscope company in New York and the Rudolph Wuritzer company in Buffalo.
Denham originally told N. L. R. B. hearing officers that present U. E. contracts would not be a bar to elections. He also said that it would be unnecessary for the hearing officers to split between the members of the rival unions. He changed those instructions this morning.
Christmas Spirit Speeds Departure Of Students
Mount Oread is getting that deserted look as hundreds of University students leave by bus, train, auto, and plane to spend the Christmas holidays with their loved ones.
The cafeteria in the Union will be open for those remaining at the University through the holidays. Christmas dinner will include turkey.
Bad weather in the form of drizzly rain only seems to speed the departure of most of the students. Those from warmer areas are in campus, but most home sports shirts and slacks and football bowls games on New Year's day.
Caroling parties have been organized, and the voices of the students can be heard to blend in the old, familiar Christmas songs. Winking multi-colored lights lure carolers on from house to house until all the loved melodies of old are sung.
Many students from distant states have already left for home. Many more students who live near by will leave today. But a lot of the students will spend Christmas at the University, these houses whose homes are too far away, and those who have no homes or families.
Instructors and professors shared the yuletide spirit of giving. Many of them broke the classroom routine with readings from Dickens. A few staunch educators also gave -shot-guns and exams-so the students
A round of Christmas parties have been held for departing students at the many houses on the Hill. Departments and schools of the University also held open house Christmas parties for students and guests.
Everyone is glad. They're going home. Merry Christmas, Joe! Merry Christmas, Janet! See you next year!
Chimes ring out the spirit of gladness from the tower of Dyche hall. Danforth chapel radiates its holiness from stained glass windows.
might spend a care-free Christmas. A few students are lounging in the library alternately reading Christmas tales and the hometown papers.
Cafeteria Lists Vacation Hours
The main cafeteria in the Union will observe the following hours during Christmas vacation:
Dec. 21, dinner, 5:15 - 6:30 p.m.
Dec. 22 through Jan. 2, breakfast,
7:30 - 8:30 a. m.; lunch, 11:45 -
1 p. m.; dinner, 5:15 - 6:15 p.m.
Christmas day, breakfast, 7:30 -
8:30 a. m.; dinner, noon to 1:30
p.m.; closed in the evening.
New Years day, breakfast, 8:30 - 9:30 a. m.; dinner, noon - 1:30 p. m.; dinner, 5:15 - 6:30 p. m.
The Palm room will be closed from Dec. 21 through Dec. 31.
Beginning Jan. 1, it will observe the following hours: lunch, noon-
1:30 p.m.; dinner, 5:30 - 7 p.m.
Fourty-five students and faculty members have been recently initiated into Phi Sigma, national biological fraternity.
Phi Sigma Takes 45 Pledges
The initiates are;
Daniel L. Azarnoff, Robert P.
P. Alexander, Claude S. Baker, Elizabeth Beard, Robert E. Becker, William E. Burkhalter, Clyde C. Doughty, Richard Draemel, Donald H. Ford, Arnold Freed, Richard Freibert, Bernard Greenberg, Richard C. Harder.
Oscar B. Heck, Lloyd E. Hendrix,
Louise Kaplan, Herbert E. Kasoff,
Gary M. Lee, George Latham,
Samuel D. Lyon, Vernon C. Mahon,
Dale McCollum, Tom J. McBridge,
William C. Normand, Angelo J.
Pasano.
Mary Jane Pistorius, Georgine Phillips, Lester G. Radcliff, Jacob Roseman, Leonard W. Rozen, Robert L. Sauvan, Jerome P. Schmidt, Delores D. Saunders, Wesley Smith, William Stephens, Blanca M. Stransky, Gerald C. Taylor, Alvin N. Thurn, Gailey Whitney, Keith Wollenbarger, and Manuel Velez, all graduate students.
Kappa Mothers Entertain
Still No Trace Of Missing Student
Marvin G. Dyck, second year law, Orlin S. Fearing, College senior; Robert Guthrie, professor of bacteriology and Boyden L. Crouch, instructor in physiology.
With Christmas only four days away, Harry C. Gilson, College senior, was still listed as missing by Lawrence police Tuesday.
The 22-year-old student disappeared Nov. 3 after he was involved in an automobile accident. Witnesses of the slight collision, which only damaged fenders, said that Gilson was apparently not injured. Police said that he faces no prosecution in court.
The Mother's club of Kappa Alpha Psi held a dinner-party for the members of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity Sunday, at the home of Mrs. Mary Dillard, 520 Louisiana street.
College Adds Five Courses To Curriculum
A faculty meeting of the College added five new courses and an apparel merchandising option in home economics to the College curriculum, Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College, announced today.
The new courses will be available to students of junior and senior standing. Two courses were added in the department of geography: 1) map planning and construction, and 2) map intelligence. One course was added to the department of political science: field work. Two courses were added to the department of bacteriology: 1) biology of bacteria, and 2) industrial microbiology.
An apparel merchandising option in home economics was planned by the department of home economics to suit the needs of students desiring a liberal education and who have a special interest in this area of merchandising.
Included are required courses in art, economics, aesthetics, and home economics, together with recommended courses in sociology, psychology, and economic geography. These have been selected to give the student a better understanding of basic art principles, economics, business practices, and problems of personnel management.
The courses are designed to provide creative experiences in the field of applied art, to develop ability to evaluate and test certain basic materials and constructions. The required and recommended courses are expected to involve the use of equipment in the application of problems in this area of merchandising and help develop his ability to solve them.
During the summer of the student's junior year, work experience in a retail store is recommended as part of the course of study. In the freshman-sophomore years, 19 hours are required. Students in grades 29-32 hours are required. Recommended courses are in addition to the required courses.
The committee on honest work made recommendations on: 1) the development of proper attitude on the part of the student toward his class work, 2) the preparation of examinations, and 3) the method of conducting examinations. The recommendations have been printed and will be distributed among faculty personnel.
Douglas County Club To Sponsor Dance
The Douglas County club of Statewide Activities will sponsor a dance for all high school seniors in Douglas county and all University students from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. Thursday in the community building. It is a western style party, jeans and plaid shirts.
Parking Rules Changed
Parking regulations for zones will be lifted during the Christmas recess. Customary restrictions on Jayhawk drive will be enforced.