University Daily Kansan 47th Year No.55 Tuesday, Dec. 6, 1949
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence. Kansas
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
A Ruffled Ward To Leave China For Home Today
Washington, Dec. 6—U.(P.)—Angus Ward starts for home today. The spade-bearded U.S. consul-general at Mukden, Manchuria, expects to put his entire staff aboard a rickety train and head for Tientsin on the first leg of their journey to the United States.
Thus will end the saga of the 18 consulate employees who have been under house arrest for a year. They got permission to leave only after the Communists threw Ward and four others in jail on criminal charges and finally ordered the whole group expelled by 7 p.m., EST. today.
As the incident neared a close, state department officials disclosed they have renewed a campaign to free two other Americans—Albert Willis of Brooklyn and Alfred T. Mescher of Kindlerhook, N.Y.
The two ECA officials have been held
The two E.C.A. officials have been held by the Communists since Sept. 22 when the crew of a South Korean freighter mutinied and fled with them to Communist-ruled North Korea.
Two U. S. notes to Russia have produced little, and now the U. S. Ambassador in Moscow, Alan G. Kirk, has taken up the case personally with Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet deputy foreign minister.
The United States apparently intends to build up as much pressure as possible to free Willis and Meschter promptly. It was understood the two are reasonably well off, although they needed food and clothing.
Officials here also awaited a reply from their sixth formal protest to Chinese Communists over the detention of William C. Smith of Long Beach, Calif., and Elmer C. Bender of Cincinnati and Chicago. The two naval fliers have been held in red China since their plane was forced down more than 13 months ago.
China's Communists, prodded by rising American opinion, were arranging final details on transportation for Ward and his staff from Mukden.
A few hours before he was scheduled to depart, Ward still did not know them. But he expected to take a train to the port of Tientsin, a 700-mile trip which usually takes from two to four days.
16 Students Join Phi Beta Kappa
Several professors on the campus were, paraphrased by John Hankins, professor of English, in his reading of an address entitled "Chaucer Up-to-Date." Original characters in the "Prologue" from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" were given the names of prominent faculty and staff members of the University.
The students are Sidney Lida graduate student; Robert L. Davis, first-year law student; and the following College seniors: Margaret A. Beltz, Mrs. Joan Gregory Bennett, Dean Collins, John Eberhardt, Lamont M. Gaston, Willace D. Hollman, Edward J. Huyueck, Jean Kirkman, Ralph Moon, William E. Ruth, Ralph Simmons, Charles E. Staley, Elmer G. Stegman, and Doris Jane Tihen.
The address had a scholarly humer which was well received by members of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary fraternity, at a recent pledging ceremony for 16 student students.
Lawyers To Hear County Attorney
John Anderson, county attorney of Johnson county, will address law students at 4 p.m. today in Fraser theater. Mr. Anderson will speak on "Criminal Procedure in the County Attorney's Office."
Earl O'Connor, president of Phi Alpha Delta, professional law fraternity, said today that all students in the School of Law are invited.
Labor Trouble At Atomic City
Oak Ridge, Tenn., Dec. 6—(U.P.) Construction on a new high-priority uranium-235 plant, neared a halt today because of a wildcat strike—the first in the history of this atomic city.
Some 250 steamfitters, truck drivers and operating engineers quit work suddenly late Monday, apparently in protest of the use of non-union labor on another Oak Ridge job.
There was no indication whether they would return to work today
Gordon Molesworth, assistant to the manager of the atomic energy commission here, said he had no warning of the "strike" and did not know how long the work stoppage would continue.
Union officials here either denied
responses to the walkout or
described comment.
Molesworth said the walkout would "interrupt the construction schedule" on a $66,000,000 gaseous diffusion plant which will produce a vital atomic plant ingredient. Two such plants already are in operation.
Chamber's Wife Will Testify In Hiss Trial
New York, Dec. 6—(U.P.)—Mrs. Whittaker Chambers, who married a Communist in 1931 and lived a masquerade life in the underground with him until he broke with the party in 1938, was expected to be called as a government witness today in the second perjury trial of Alger Hiss.
Mrs. Chambers, 49, a plain, bespectacled woman who has done rough chores on the Chambers Maryland farm for 10 years, was scheduled to follow to the stand Eunice A. Lincoln, state department veteran.
Miss Lincoln began her testimony late Monday. She was secretary from 1933 to 1939 to Francis B. Sayre, assistant secretary of state to Hiss was chief assistant in the late 1930's. She described the physical set-up of the office and testified that four penciled summaries of state department documents, which the government has entered in evidence, appeared to be in Hiss's handwriting.
Hiss has admitted the documents are in his handwriting. He is charged with lying to a grand jury when he swore he never gave state department secrets to Chambers, an admitted former Communist spy ring courier, and never saw him after Jan. 1, 1937.
WEATHER
Kansas-Possible snow tonight. Rain may fall in northern counties during the night.
Chancellor and Mrs. Deene W. Malott are shown in San Francisco recently before boarding their airplane for a round-the-world trip by Pan American Airways. The chancellor will attend the America-India conference in New Delhi from Monday, Dec. 12, to Thursday, Dec. 22, and then continue on around the world by way of Europe. He and Mrs. Malott crossed the Pacific by way of Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Bangkok and Calcutta. The meeting in India is sponsored by the Institute of Pacific Relations and the India Council on World Affairs. Six American university presidents are among the delegates, the chancellor said.
'False Gods'
To Start Tonight
The first performance of the three-act play "False Gods" by the University Players will be given at 8:15 tonight in Fraser theater.
Tickets may be obtained in the basement of Green hall until 4 p.m., and at the ticket office in Fraser hall before the show. Student activity cards may be presented to get tickets.
County Clubs Elect Chairmen
Ninety-five University students were elected county club chairman of Statewide Activities at the all-student convocation Wednesday, Nov. 30.
Elected students and their respective counties are:
The chairman will organize and lead the county club movement in Kansas. The purposes of the clubs are to inform the public on University activities and to promote the University as a whole.
Lois Lacy, Allen; Margery Myers,
Anderson; Dick Milton, Atchison;
Leora Louise Hamilton, Barber;
Diana Sherwood, Barton; Louis
Sciortino, Bourbon; Kathryin Conrad,
Brown; Doris Greenbank, Butter;
Ruth Margaret Patterson, Chautaqua; Rosemary Keenan, Cheroake; John Kite, Cheyenne; Jonell Ashcraft; Clark; Alice Milligan, Marilyn Kendall, Cloud; Ray Piper,
Coffee; Eldon Herd, Comanche; Richard Folck, Cowley; Donna Kempster, Crawford.
Sam Willcoxon, Decatur; Nancy Gemmill, Dickinson; M. Pat Oliver; Donibank; Fred Six, Douglas; Orville Bancourt; Edwards; William Parker Elk; Victor Eddy, Ellis; Paul Aylchard; Lowiez; Better Joe Jones, Finn; Anne Lehmann, Ford; Virginia Carter, Franklin; Marian Kysar, Gove; ohn Wesley; Grant; Lois Timmen, Gray; Wendale McAllaster, Greeley; Carol Forbes, Greenwood; Jack Reed, Hamilton; Jimmie J. Underwood, Harper; James McArthur, Harvey,
Charlotte Klusmire, Jackson;
Mary Anne O'Neill, Jefferson; Robert Standerwick, Jewell; William Herwig, Johnson; Philip R. Jones,
Kearny; Marvin S. Liggett, Kiowa;
Jo Pownall, Labette; Phyllis Mowery, Lane; Arthur Kaaz, Leawenhour; Worth Abercrombie, Lincoln; Robert Banks, Linn; John E. Zeigler; Jr. Logan; Althea L, Owen Lyon,
Dale Ferguson, McPherson; Donna Hobein, Marion; Robert S. Anderson, Marshall; Frank Shogrin, Meade; Walter E. Marsh, Miami; Don Porter, Mitchell, Elizabeth Leedy, Montgomery; Richard H. Harris, Morris; Dick Hughes, Nemaha; Joe Wampler, Neosho; Margo Taylor, Norton; Jeannine Neihart, Osage; Charles Reiner, Osborne; Arthur Perry, Ottawa
Marlyn Reed, Pawnee; Roberta Gilliland, Phillips; Lili Tessendorf, Pottawatomie; Eddie Maag, Pratt; Deloit Wolfe, Rawlins; Natalie Logan, Reno; Curtis Thomas Collins, Jr., Republic; Robert Brock, Rice; Roy Wonder, Riley; Ronald Stang, Rush; Dean Iden, Russell; John Griffen, Saline; James VanAntwerp, Scott; James Porter, Sedgwick; Evans Francis, Shawnee; Marcia Horn, Sherman; Joyce Nickell, Smith; Margaret Longwood, Stafford; Wilma Shore, Stanton; Elda Phillips, Stevens, Marrilyn Ross, Sumner.
Nancy Dennen, Thomas; Elizabeth Hille, Trego; JoAnn Van Petten, Wabaunsee; James Edwardaylor, Wallace; Mary A. Lobaugh, Washington; Cleo Vague, Wichita; Jane Heywood, Wilson; Emerson Harris, Woodson; Richard Lander, Wyandotte.
Medical School To Give Monthly Refresher Class
More than 300 Kansas physicians will return to school this week.
They will devote a half-day monthly through May to postgraduate courses which will be given by the University School of Medicine in seven Kansas cities. Two-doctor instruction teams will be at each of the cities. They will rotate each month.
The K.U. program, endorsed by the Kansas Medical society and the State board of health, is designed to maintain and improve the standards of Kansas medicine. The half-day courses bring postgraduate education to physicians who are unable to leave their patients to attend the three and four-day refresher course at the Medical center in Kansas City.
This year H. G. Ingham, director of the extension program in medicine, arranged two circuits. At first meetings on the south-eastern circuit, the anticipated attendances are: Pittsburgh, today, more than 40 physicians; Independence, Wednesday, 50 or more; Hutchinson, Thursday, more than 60; Manhattan, Friday, about 40. The northwestern circuit: Concordia, Wednesday, more than 35; Colby, Thursday, more than 35; Dodge City, Friday, about 50.
Dr. Charles Rombold, orthopedic surgeon at the Wichita clinic and Dr. Lee H. Geger, director of the K.U. Medical center laboratories, will teach the southeastern circuit this week. Dr. Rombold will discuss fractures and Dr. Leger will tell of practical laboratory tests and their uses by the general practitioner.
Diabetes and endocrinology will be the subjects for Dr. Edward J. Ryan of Emporia on northwestern circuit programs. With him will be Albert N. Lemoine, Jr., assistant ophthalmologist at the Medical center. He will discuss common ailments of the eye.
"School" will start in each city at 3 p.m., continuing until 9 p.m. Abstracts of each lecture will be supplied in loose-leaf form. All doctors attending three-fourths of the sessions will receive certificates next spring.
KU Debaters To Austin
University debaters Steve Mills and Kent Shearer, College juniors, will leave tonight for Texas where they will represent the University in exhibition debates, a convocation debate, and a tournament.
The debate tournament, held by the University of Texas at Austin, is considered one of the best invitational contests of the year, Mills said.
The team will debate five rounds in the tournament on the question of electing the president by popular vote.
Mills and Shearer will debate against the University of Texas in the convocation and against two other schools in exhibition debates on Wednesday. The questions for these debates will be chosen when the team arrives at Austin.
Illinois Educator To Talk
To Chemical Colloquium
Dr. Herbert A. Laitinen, professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois, will speak at a combined chemical colloquium at 4 p.m. today in 305 Bailey chemical laboratories.
His topic will be "Polarography in Liquid Ammonia."