WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1949
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Laughton Bellows, Paces In Preparation For Show
By KAY O'CONNOR
Before Charles Laughton came on stage with his armful of dog earl books and his horn-rimmed glasses, he had already put one show not seen by his formal audience.
Arriving at the Union at 6:20 p.m.
Sunday with his agent, Hal Melone,
Mr. Laughton met Craig Hampton,
president of Student Union Activities,
which sponsored his appearance at the University. They went immediately to Hoch auditorium.
Probably 10 combinations were tried while Mr. Laughton, greying hair, rapidly becoming tousled, smoked borrowed cigarettes and paced the distance between center stage and control panel.
"All right, now how about the acoustics here? HAH!" The walls of Hoch echoed from the resounding bellow. "These lights, this sound, it's very important, you know."
"No, that won't do." Laughton would say. "It's too tall. I put the stool on the table to lean against while I read, not to sit on. I bore the pants off you if you can't see me."
His heavy jowls shaking, the actor jumped nimbly onto a chair and up to a table to look over a screen around a pile of chairs and stools. "There!" pointing with arm out-stretched. "That one. Now I'll want another table—for my books, you know.
Into the mike flowed a sudden unbroken stream of poetry: "... flowing down to Camelot How doth the little busy bee its shining hours The transcontinental streaking across the continent 80 miles an hour —HAH."
"Now then, how about lighting? That spot wants to be about 2 feet on over this way, old man. Oooups not so far . . . split it."
"Certainly," he answered with a coy smile.
Out onto the stage went the big man, his retinue of stage managers, a reporter, a photographer, and an agent trailing after him like so many small ducklings.
A textbook in business law was borrowed. On with the glasses, off with the slightly dirty beige hat and coat, and in the best manner of the English court.
"Mr. Laughton, would you pose for a picture with a book at the mike?"
"C gives the note by negotiation, after maturity D, who has knowledge of the fraud perpetrated upon B by A—" This is getting terribly complicated. Let's go dig a chicken sandwich."
Beca Raton, Fla., —(U.P.) A commi-
tive department official has said
there probably will be enough coffee
to meet demands next year if housewives
quit hoarding and dealers quit
speculating.
Coffee Speculators Send Prices Rising
Actual shipments of coffee to the United States during the first nine months of 1949 were 7 percent higher than those of the same period in 1948. Unless there is a big increase in consumption, he said, this higher volume should compensate for slightly lower imports expected early in 1950.
George W. Muller, chairman of the food division of the departments office of international trade, blamed the recent rapid increase in coffee prices on both consumers and the coffee industry.
Prizes for the winning couples will be given at a duplicate bridge tournament to be held by the 4-No Bridge club from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday in the Union. A dinner will be held after the tournament.
"The public, roasters and dealers in coffee can contribute to price stability and even distribution of supplies by returning to their normal told operations." Mr. Muller told the National Coffee association.
Prizes Will Be Given At Bridge Tournament
In duplicate bridge both couples at attable play the same hand. The court with the highest score on the hand wins.
Ad Man Will Talk To Business Class
M. H. Straight, direct mail specialist of the Rogers and Smith Advertising agency, Kansas City, Mo., will speak before members of the Business Communications classes at 8 p.m. today in 305 Bailey hall.
Group Aids War Orphan
For the third consecutive year the Inter-Fraternity council will aid the support of Gustave Le Guevel, 12, French war orphan.
Gustave's parents were both killed in World War II and although there were other children in the family, no record of them has been found. Gustave has been staying at a boarding school in St. Brieuc, France, with approximately 50 other war orphans. With the aid of the $180 sent each year by the Inter-Fraternity council through the Foster Parents plan, Gustave received the barest necessities of food and clothing. A part of this money is allocated for his education at the school.
The Foster Parents plan, with central offices in New York, can obtain war orphans in any European country. All transactions and correspondence carried on between the orphan and the organization supporting him go through the New York offices.
Gustave studies at the boarding school and works on a farm harvesting wheat during the summer month. Inter - Fraternity council, voted to continue their support and is sending Gustave $10 for Christmas. This money will be doubled by the New York office and the money will be used in the purchase of needy articles of clothing.
Rookie Railroader Saves Log Train
McNary, Ariz., —(U,P)— Southwest lumber mills, inc., officials credited a rookie railroad conductor with saving an untold number of lives by stopping a runaway logging train.
Conductor Wesley W. Clark, 38, an employee of the Apache Railway company for less than three weeks, stuck to an out-of-control 10-car lumber train which was headed down grade directly into a big mill.
Mr. Clark desperately continued to work the faulty air brakes which finally caught hold, just a few miles short of the employee filled mill located in the heart of this company operated town of 2,500. It had continued to service charge, the army officials believe the runaway would have been exceeding 80 miles an hour when it hit the center of town.
Mr. Clark was the only one of three trainmen who didn't jump from the heavily laden train when the brakes failed. Engineer Wade Jones, 26, and fireman Cleo Buren, 45, leaped to safety as the train roared down the tracks at an estimated 50 miles an hour.
Mr. Jones received a wrist fracture, broken shoulder and cuts and bruises. Mr. Buren suffered a broken collar bone, wrenched shoulder, lacerated knees and ankles and possible internal injuries.
Asked why he didn't jump with Mr. Jones and Mr. Buren, Mr. Clark said: "I thought I'd better stick it out. I knew that if I didn't there would be a hell of a mess."
Medicine Lodge — (U.P) — To the hour, the R. L. Nuckolls owned an attractive ranch home. It burned to the ground on the exact anniversary of their signing purchase papers.
German Choir To Sing Carols Next Monday
A 43-member German choir will take part in the annual German department Christmas program, Monday, Dec. 19. The choir was organized by Clayton Krebbiel, assistant instructor in education.
The choir will sing six 16th-century Christmas chorals on the program. Mr. Krehbiel, the choir master, is a former member of the Robert Shaw Chorale. He is also music director at University High school.
The numbers that the choir will sing are: "Es ist ein Ros Ent-sprunen," "O Jesulene Zart," "O Dulci Jubilo," "Vom Himmel Hoch," "Lieb Nachtigall," and "Still, Still."
Members of the choir are: Miss Helga Kemnitzer and Werner Winter, assistant instructors in German; Erich Rylf, graduate student; William C. Collins, business senior; Theron Brewer, Dean Collins, Shirley Gordon, Ned Gorrell, Rosemary Hall, and Held Shenman, College seniors; Eugene Azure and Marjorie Lane, education seniors.
Lynn Lucas, fine arts senior; Dorothy Menahan, College junior; Janice Fronkier, Jane Lucas, and Myrna Lynch, fine arts juniors; Joseph Carter, education junior; Robert Eberwein, Jeanette Leuty, Walter Lewin, Richard Lynch, and Marilyn Thomas, College sophores; Rita Carl, education sophomore; Jerry Delicacy, Barry McDaniel, George Upham, and Judith Veatch, fine arts sophomores.
Gary Buehrer, Dennis Dalh, Calvin Engelman, William Fort, James Harris, Joy Hutcherson, Luy Kirkpatrick, Virginia McCrea, LaVera Meek, Clifford Reusch, Francis Samson, Newman Shaver, and Edna Symms, College freshmen; and Violet Krispense and Robert Martin, first year medical students.
Chowla Talks On Hypothesis
Dr. Sarvadaman Chowla, professor of mathematics, discussed one of the most famous unsolved problems of the number theory, the Riemann hypothesis, at the mathematics colloquium in Strong hall Monday afternoon. Approximately 35 persons heard the lecture.
The Riemann hypothesis, concerning the Riemann Zeta function, was proposed 100 years ago. Attempts to disprove it have failed. Dr. Chowla presented different concepts concerning the authenticity of the hypothesis.
Professor Chowla gave the same address which he will present on Wednesday, Dec. 28, at the fifty-sixth annual meeting of the American Mathematical society at Columbia university.
The next meeting of the colloquium will be held on Monday,
Silver Dollars In Demand Gamblers Biggest Users
Denver—(U.P.)-The average purse-hugger wouldn't know it, but there still is a demand for the old-fashioned silver dollar.
In this day of folding money, folks still are asking if the Colorado mining barons.
YMCA Will Hold Christmas Smoker
A Christmas smoker open to all members of the Y. M. C. A. will be held in Henley house today from 7:30 to 9:30 p. m.
A program of entertainment and carol singing is being arranged by Robert Simonton, journalism senior. Refreshments will be served.
A student conducted religious service was held Friday by Hillel, Jewish student group, in Danforth chapel. It was followed by social activities at the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity house.
KU Will Study Mexico Animals
The Museum of Natural History has hired a collector to study vertebrate animals, chiefly mammals, in Tamaulipas and other states in Eastern Mexico.
The results of his work will be made available for University personnel now working on a navy sponsored project concerning the distribution of mammals. The project is being done by the department of zoology and the Museum of Natural History.
Mr. Schaldach will work with a commercial photographer while in Mexico.
William Schaldach, field collector for museum, left for Mexico Dec. 10. He is an experienced collector and has done work for museums in Montana, Arizona, Newfoundland, and Mexico. He will collect representative animals from Eastern Mexico to complete information on the distribution of mammals for the museum.
Jewish Students Give Hillel Service
This was the first Hillel service given this year by the group of which Leon Fish is chairman. The service is held after sundown in preparation for the Jewish Sabbath.
The sermon was delivered by Bernard Weitznter, engineering sophomore. The service was read Martin J. Rooff. Colleague freshman.
Hillel will have a party at 8 p.m. Epsilon Pi fraternity, 1247 Ohio street
Hillel will have party at 8 p. m.
Tuesday, Dec. 20, at the Alpha
Epsilon fraternity, 1247 Ohio street.
Betty Lou's Stocking Will Be Well Filled Christmas
Brownsville, Tenn.—(U.P.)-Betty Lou Marbury doesn't know it yet, but she's one little girl whose Christmas list will be filled.
The nine-year-old girl whose plea for prayer that she won't lose her right hand touched the hearts of the nation, went Christmas shopping in Memphis the other day. She had just finished her final X-ray treatment until January.
Store officials and the Memphis Commercial appeal kept careful check on everything she said she wanted—and will see that she gets it. A store official even planned to supply a small white dog, which isn't carried in stock.
Leavenworth Club Elect
Jane Schindling Chairman
The Commercial Appeal had published Betty Lou's letter, in which she told of the danger of losing her hand to prevent spread of a malignant disease. She asked for readers to pray for her, and prayers were offered in many churches Sunday.
Jane Schindling, education freshman, was elected chairman of the Leavenworth County club recently in a town-council committee energizing sophomore who resigned.
Plans were discussed for a Christmas party during Christmas vacation in the Leavenworth High school gymnasium. The high school senior class will be invited, Kaaz said. The date for the party will be set after the vacation begins.
The big cartwheel, which once could buy more than a stack of the present-day green stuff, seldom is seen now in ordinary day-to-day exchange.
Bankers believe the biggest group of present-day silver dollar users are people who frequent gambling places and slot machine players. The heavy dollar is too large to meet the needs of the housewife or average consumer, especially with the drastic cheapening of money during the past decade.
Even in western states like Colorado, where 15 years ago cashiers always returned silver dollars in change for folding money unless specifically requested not to, the silver dollar is dropping out of the money picture as far as the grocery-buyer is concerned.
They still are not as rare in the west, however, as in the east, where a silver dollar seldom is seen outside a bank vault.
Despite the silver dollar's disappearance from the bulk of trade, it still is popular with some people. Moses Smith, director of the U. S. mint in Denver, said the hard dollars are being distributed at a rate of about four million a year.
The treasury has a stockpile in its mints of something like $13 million in silver dollars, despite the fact that minting of that coin was stopped in 1935. The last big batch was turned out in 1921.
The silver dollar reached the height of its popularity as a medium of exchange in the 1880s and '90s during the heyday of such fabulous mining kings as Colorado's "Haw" Tabor and Meyer Guggenheim.
Tabor always carried a pocketful of the big clanking coins which he liked to throw onto the stage of the Leadville opera house when a trim figure drew his admiration. Some of the silver barons used the dollars for flooring as an obvious motif.
A part of the present demand for silver dollars, the Denver mint believes, may be attributable to the growing demand for coin in this country.
U. S. mints in the past decade have produced 50 per cent of all the coinage turned out in the United States in the past 150 years.
Until dollar parking meters and peanut machines come along,however,gambling probably will provide the chief demand for the old-fashioned cartwheel.
Geologist Speaks At ASME Banquet
One hundred seventy-five engineers from four chapters of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers heard R. C. Moore, research director of the Geological Survey, speak on his experiences in Japan where he acted as advisor to Gen. Douglas McArthur.
Dr. Moore said that General MacArthur is doing an excellent job in Japan, although the Japanese still are far from recovery. One of his jobs while in Japan was to study more efficient methods of exploration of minerals than those currently practiced by the Japanese. He illustrated his talk with films taken on the trip.
He was speaking at the annual banquet of the society, held on Dec. 8 at the University. The chapter from Kansas State college and two chapters from Kansas City were guests of the K. U. chapter.
Among the guests from Kansas State college were M. A. Durland, dean of the engineering school; A. H. Duncan, honorary chairman of the student group; Lynn Helander, head of the mechanical engineering department; and Ernest Thorne, student chairman of the K-State chapter. E. M. Bruzelius, senior chairman; and Charles Green, junior chairman, were among those from the Kansas City group.
Ben Jonson, English poet laureate, is buried in an upright position in Westminster Abbey.