University Daily Kansan Monday, Nov. 28, 1949 OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
Lewrence, Kansas
Clean Up Begins Following Storm In Northwest
Seattle, Wash., Nov. 28.—(U.P.) The Pacific Northwest began cleaning up today after a storm that blew from the Pacific and left 21 persons dead, four others missing and scorpions injured this weekend.
Every available man in Mt. Vernon, Wash., sandbagged the Skagit river dike as the stream, backed up by a high tide, rose to within a foot of the levee's top. Mt. Vernon shop-keepers moved goods to top floors at the river threatened the business district, 10 feet below the dike's top
As the storm roared inland, it left millions of dollars in property damage. Floods were increasing the havoc.
The rain-swollen Skagit river flooded approximately 10,000 acres of farmland and the entire 200 residents of Hamilton, Wash., were evacuated Sunday night. Four feet of Skagit river water stood in Hamilton streets.
One hundred persons were removed from the little fishing village of Marietta at the mouth of the Nooksack river on Bellingham bay as flood waters rose above floor level.
The coast guard dispatched 10 men, two amphibious vehicles, a radio truck, three skiffs and three walk' talkedies to Mt. Vernon. Many resis' said it was the worst Skak. good since 1909.
Other rivers in Washington and British Columbia were receding, the Seattle weather bureau reported.
Several families in Mason County, Wash., were stranded when the Skokomish river overflowed but they were moving back to their homes today. Others were left isolated when the Dungeness and Stillaguamish rivers in Washington, and the Fraser, Capilano and Manquin rivers in British Columbia gushed over their banks.
The storm, one of the worst in Pacific Northwest history, buffeted the area on a 1,000-mile front reaching from Southern Alaska to Northern California.
Ninety-mile-an-hour winds, with
grees up to 110, were recorded at Cut
Bank and Great Falls, Mont.
The Vancouver, B.C. weather bureau said unofficially that seven inches of rain poured north of the city in a 24-hour period.
The 400,000 residents of Vancouver were without city water supplies when a flush flood washed out mains along the Capilano river. However, city officials said there was ample water in reservoirs.
The annual speech contest on campus problems will be held Thursday, Dec. 15, in Fraser theor. The contest, under the direction of William Conboy, instructor in speech, will be open to all University students.
Ten bridges were washed out in British Columbia and five in Washington.
The storm broke communications between Western British Columbia and the rest of Canada. A landslide roared down on the Trans-Canada highway near Hope, B.C., trapping a loaded greyhound bus and 10 passenger cars, but the occupants scrambled to safety.
Speech Contest Set For Dec. 15
Thirteen were known dead in British Columbia and eight in Washington and Oregon. Four others—a taxicab driver and his three passengers—were missing at Port Alberni, B.C. Police feared they went off the road into the Alberni river.
500 To Take Western Civ Tests
More than 500 students are registered to take the preliminary Western Civilization examination to be given Wednesday and Thursday, Mrs. Louise Cochran, Western Civilization instructor, said today.
"The examination was prepared by the Western Civilization proctors," said Mrs. Cochran. "It is given to show the student how his study compares with that of the other students who are taking the course. The examination does not count in determining the student's grade in the course and no letter grades will be given on the quiz
"The tests will be divided into five groups according to scores. At each student's first meeting with his proctor following the examination the proctor will discuss the student's test answers with him and tell him in which of the five groups he ranked."
Wednesday night the test will be given in 9 Strong hall and 305 Bailey hall. The test was originally scheduled to be held only in Strong hall but the large registration made the use of 305 Bailey hall necessary, Mrs. Cochran said.
She urged students who are to take the examination Wednesday night to report to 305 Bailey hall.
Thursday evening the test will be given in 428 Lindley hall. The examination will begin at 7:30 p.m. and end at 9 p.m. on both Wednesday and Thursday. The only supplies students need are pens or pencils
Truman Leaves For Vacation
On both nights one test will be given over the first five units of reading and one over the second five units. Students who wish to take both the tests must attend Wednesday and Thursday night. Others may choose either days.
The chief executive was tired and ready and willing to take it easy at the Key West, Fla., naval station, his favorite warm weather resort.
Washington, Nov. 28—(U.P.)—President Truman flies south today for a work-and-play vacation scheduled to last three weeks.
Members of the President's immediate staff also were in the party
Mr. Truman, his wife and daughter were scheduled to take off in the presidential DC-6 Independence at 8:30 a.m. (EST). The will arrive at Boca Chica airfield outside Key West about four hours later.
The long and heated session of congress has kept Mr. Truman from his favorite vacation spot since last March. When the legislators worked right through the summer, the president sweated it out, too. He took an occasion off to offend to the presidential yacht Williamsburg or to motor to his shangri-la hideaway in Maryland's Catoetin mountains.
The President's first weeks in Key West probably will be dedicated rest as much as possible. After that, he will divide his time between swimming and the beach, swimming, and an occasional fishing trip.
His state of the union message, to be delivered to congress early in January, will be whipped into shape during the Florida trip. Top government officials will drop in on him from time to time with suggestions as to what it should contain.
Malott Satisfied With Present Job
Chancellor Deane W. Malott recently received a "feeler" from a television trade school. The letter began:
Chancellor Malott, although in his 11th year in the same position and with little chance of promotion from his present employer, said he had decided against seeking a fortune in the booming field of television.
Lyle Wolfrom To Be Soloist
"We are writing you with the thought that quite possibly you are dissatisfied with your present work and future prospects. . ."
Lyle Wolfrom, fine arts junior,
will be cello soloist with the Kansas
City Philharmonic orchestra at its
young people's concert Wednesday.
The concert will be at 2:30 p.m.
in the music hall, Kansas City, Mo.
WEATHER
KANSAS — Colder weather is moving into the Kansas area. The weather forecast calls for partly cloudy today, tonight and Tuesday.
Wolfram is a student of Raymond Stuhl, assistant professor of cello. He was one of four musicians chosen in auditions Oct. 1 to play with the orchestra during its concert season. Wolfram is a four-year winner of the Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs' competition for cellist. In the fourth year he was named the outstanding performer in both instrument and voice.
Wolfram will play "Kol Nidrel" (Bruch) on the program Wednesday
Enrollment In KC Region Drops 13 Per Cent, VA Says
Nearly 13 per cent fewer World War II veterans residing in northeastern Kansas and western Missouri are now enrolled in various Government-sponsored educational and training programs than a year ago, the veterans Administration regional office in Kansas City has announced.
The number of veterans enrolled in the on-the-job training program has been declining for some time, the V.A. said. This year's figure, as compared with a year ago, shows a total decrease of 2,682 for this area. A year ago, 6,635 veterans were taking on-the-job training in
Bell Telephone Asks Injunction
About 13,000 veterans were enrolled in colleges and universities in this area a year ago, now there are only 8,673. This decrease, amounting to 4,038, represents about a 31 per cent decline from a year ago, the V.A. said.
College enrollment has been steadily decreasing, but the number of veterans enrolling in trade and technical schools has shown only a slight decrease. This year's enrollment in this type training is 12,239 as compared with 12,376 a year ago, or a total decrease of 137.
Topeka, Kan., Nov. 28—(U.P.)-The Southwestern Bell Telephone company today launched a new move for higher rates in Kansas.
It asked for a district court order enjoining the Kansas Corporation commission from enforcing the existing schedule of telephone rates in Kansas.
The only phase of the veterans' education and training program to show an increase in enrollment is farm-training. Last year there were 7,348 veterans in this 62-county area receiving training. This year's enrollment has jumped to 9,170, for a total increase vf 1,822
Should an injunction be granted, the company would be permitted to put a new, higher set of service charges into effect. Southwestern Bell maintains it has lost money in Kansas in both 1947 and 1948 and that its prospective profit this year of only two per cent on "fair value" of its Kansas property will not make up the two-year loss.
western Missouri and northeastern Kansas while this year there are 3,933, a decrease of about 40 per cent from a year ago.
While nearly 180,000 World War II veterans in this area are eligible for education and training benefits under the G.I. bill, only 2,131 have used up their entitlement time, while an additional 2,181 disabled veterans who have been in training under Public law 16 have been vocationally rehabilitated.
The telephone company did not disclose what monthly service rates telephone customers could expect under a court authorization. In effect now is a temporary schedule granted by the Corporation commission designed to bring in $3,350,000 additional revenue a year. Southwestern Bell has posted bond to insure repayment of the difference to customers should a final rate scale provide charges smaller than under the temporary schedule.
Fred Schneider, Southwestern Bell's division manager here, said the company also is offering to post board for any temperary rates allowed under court order to insure refunds if necessary.
Schneider said the telephone company has met continued rebuffs and unwarranted delay from the State Corporation commission in its attempts to obtain what he termed reasonable rates for telephone service in Kansas.
Until this fall, Professor Gelich was chairman of the violin department of the School of Fine Arts. He came to K.U. in 1922 from the University of Wisconsin where he had been chairman of the violin department 11 years. He is a graduate of the Chicago conservatory of music and a former student at the Berlin conservatory.
Waldemar Gelcht, professor of violin, will present his faculty recital at 8 p.m. today in Strong aud
The telephone company's original application for higher rates was filed with the commission Sept. 30, 1947.
His program will be as follows:
"Sonata in G Minor" (Tartini)
"Concerto in E Flat" (Mozart)
"Serenade Mielancholique" (Tschakowsky), "A Lepke" (Hubay),
"Stimmung" (Achron, and "Havnaise" (Saint-Saens).
Professor Geltch To Give Recital
Professor Gelch will be accompanied by Miss Marian Jersild, instructor in piano.
Reds Behind China Incidents, Officials Say
Washington, Nov. 28—U(P).The Ward-Stokes incidents in China are only the start of a Communist drive to make Americans "lose face" in the Far East, diplomatic officials believed today.
They said the detentions of Angus Ward, U. S. consul general at Mukden, and William N. Stokes, vice-consul, were part of a studied attempt by the "people's republic" to undermine American prestige in the orient.
Dean Acheson, secretary of state, returned to his desk from a brief vacation today and will take over direction of possible counter moves. These will not include a U. S. naval blockade of Chinese Communist ports as some members of congress demand.
The 26-year-old vice consul was "removed" from the consulate without a warrant and paraded before a Communist "count" trying an "American spy ring." Released after being held incommunicado for more than seven hours, he was ordered deported along with Angus Ward, consul general, and the other non-Chinese members of the Mukden staff.
The big question now is when exit visas and transportation will be provided by the Communists. Mr. Ward, who was released himself the past week after a month's imprisonment at Mukden, advised the state department Sunday that no departure date has been set.
According to word received from Mr. Ward, Mr. Stokes was forced to attend a trial of an alleged American "spy ring" in which all the defendants were Chinese, Japanese, or Koreans. No Americans and no consular employees were involved in the trial. Mr. Ward said.
Americans, along with "un friendly" orientals, have been charged with operating a spy ring, complete with radio transmitters and secret code books, all under the direction of U. S. military officers. The state department has protested all such allegations as "fantastic" and "trumped up," but they have persisted nonetheless.
Release of Mr. Ward and Mr. Stokes by the Chinese Communists at Mukden has not settled the incident as far as international law is concerned, Sen. Homer Ferguson, (R. Mich.), said today.
Senator Ferguson said the Communist action against Mr. Ward and Mr. Stokes had created a "very serious" international situation and the release of the two men in no way lessens its gravity.
Senator Ferguson arrived in Hong Kong with other members of the senate appropriations committee touring the Far East. They arrived Kaltak airfield from Manila aboard an American navy transport plane.
"Chinese Communist actions in the Ward case have created a very serious international situation in view of international law and rules, which must be strictly applied." Senator Ferguson said.
"I am particularly interested as Mr. Ward is from my home state of Michigan. I am very anxious to get all the information I can. Release of the two men has not settled the incident as far as international law is concerned. I am disappointed that Mr. Ward has not yet been able to come out of Mukden. I had hoped that protests from all those nations would have succeeded, but apparently they did not.
"The Chinese Communists say they want international recognition and want to take part in international affairs. If they really do they should follow the rules."