UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1949
Slavs Confident Of Election To Security Council
Flushing, N.Y., Oct. 20—(U.P.)-Yugoslavia expects to win the crucial United Nations security council election on the second ballot today despite opposition by Russia.
Observers expected Yugoslavia to win a seat on the council despite Soviet foreign minister Andrei Vishinsky's statement that a Yugoslav victory would be "illegal," hinting it might force Russia to withdraw from the U.N.
Yugoslavia will need a two-thirds majority to fill the Ukraine's place on the powerful security council. This would be 40 votes if all 59 member nations were present, but absenteeism is expected to cut the necessary majority below 40.
Britain announced that she would back the Soviet candidate. Czechoslovakia, in keeping with the principle of geographic distribution of seats and a "gentlemen's agreement" among the big four powers.
Britain's support of Czechoslovakia will place the United Kingdom on one side and the United States on the other. Voting with Russia, in addition to Britain and the Soviet bloc, were expected to be Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, Argentina, Denmark and Norway.
However, the Norwegian delegation was so angered by Vishinsky's statement the past Tuesday that new instructions have been requested from Oslo.
Two other seats on the security council also will be filled.
council also India was slated to replace Canada and Ecuador was the choice to take Argentina's seat.
Security council members may not be elected to succeed themselves. This is not the case in the economic and social council and the trusteeship council, elections for both of which also will be held today.
The general assembly, after three weeks of committee meetings at Lake Success, returns to Flushing for three days of meetings of a 14-item agenda of finished committee business awaiting them. The majority deal with financial matters. By Saturday, however, the assembly was expected to have reached the troublesome political issues of Korea and human rights violations in the Balkans arising from the prosecution of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty and other church leaders.
New Excuse For Husband
New York, Oct. 20—(U.P.)-John Williams had a lesson in geography today and a new excuse for coming late.
coming here.
The spry 74-year-old jeweler flew from Newark, N. J., to Dallas and back to LaGuardia field in New York in an attempt to reach his home at Fall River, Mass.
Williams boarded an airliner at Newark Tuesday night and took off for what he thought would be a short flight to Providence, R. I. he parked his car there earlier in the day before flying to New York on a buying trip.
It was just a cross-country mixup, red-faced American airlines officials apologized.
When he heard passengers around him looking forward to sights in Mexico City, he just flipped the pages of a magazine contentedly and mused on the idiosyncracies of people who fly.
Five minutes after departure, a hostess looked at his ticket.
"She just seemed startled and left right away," Williams said.
r. 3. Robinson, an airlines official, came up to him.
"Where are you going sir?" Robinson asked.
"Providence," cause the stop is Dallas." Robinson answered.
Paden To Read
Tennyson's Poetry
W. D. Paden, associate professor of English, will discuss the poetry of Tennyson and the psychology behind it at 7:30 p.m. Friday, at a Psi Chi Club meeting. The Psi Chi club, honorary fraternity of the psychology department, will hold the meeting in the Pine room of the Union.
Chest Drive $6,000 Short
Almost $2,000 of the Community chest drive quota for University staff and faculty members has been received, Guy V. Keeler, University chairman of the drive, said today.
"The city drive has lagged a bit but we have approached our quota much more rapidly than a year ago." Mr. Keeler pointed out. "The K.U. campaign is not finished because a few who usually pledge have not done so. Considerably more people are making contributions, and we'd rather have a little from many persons than from a few."
University donors of $25 or more are: T. DeWitt Carr, dean of the School of Engineering; Ogden S. Jones, chairman of the Union operating committee; and Ray Q. Brewster, professor of chemistry.
The city drive is about $6,000 under the quota of $22,306.93. The funds go to the Y.M.C.A., W.Y.C.A., boy and girl scouts, Hi-Y, Y-teens, I-H club, Salvation army, social service league, and community activities.
students will make their contributions to the Lawrence chest fund during a drive in November.
Dormitory Plans To Be Considered
State architect Charles Marshall, Joseph Wilson, University business manager and L. C. Woodruff, dean of men are scheduled to meet today to discuss plans for new housing facilities for men.
ties for them.
Dean Woodruff said that no definite plans or sketches have been drawn as yet for the new facilities. Mr. Marshall has been traveling throughout the country observing men's housing facilities on other campuses in order to better plan the new residence halls for the University of Kansas.
Dean Woodruff explained that plans cannot be completed until the amount of money available for such work is known. However, the discussions will center around the size of student rooms and types of equipment and facilities that will be installed in the proposed halls.
Dr. John M. Lawrence, director of the Donner laboratory, said the use of radioactive phosphorus now gives victims of polycythemia, a disease in which there is an excessive accumulation of red cells in the blood, as good a chance of life as that enjoyed by diabetics who use insulin.
A Disease Subject To Atomic Medicine
Berkeley, Calif.-U.P.)—A University of California scientist reports that it is possible to say that "at least one disease can be controlled by 'atomic medicine.'"
Dr. Lawrence said radiations from the radioactive phosphorus reduce this excess and keep polycythemia, once considered fatal, under control.
Dr. Canuteson In Kansas City
Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of the University health service, attended an executive meeting of the Kansas Tuberculosis and Health association today in Kansas City. He is a vice-president of the association.
Little Man On Campus
By Bibler
"Oh come now, Freda--You know men aren't allowed on second."
Technical Devices Invented But Divining Rods Persist
The mystic metal seekers and "water witches," with their simple divining rods and wands, are out of the running these days, with the new and technical instruments developed to guide industries and individuals to hidden treasures.
Portable Geiger counters to take on your vacation, radar, seismo-
graphs, and airborne magnetometers are only a few of the complicated gadgets by which modern science now detects radioactive minerals, and charts underground and underseas rocks and soil for the presence of oil, water, iron and other desired ores.
But the diviners have not given up, according to various news accounts—one of the latest of which reported that a Pennsylvania Amishman had successfully located water 200 feet down with the aid of a pair of ordinary garage pliers.
A favorite implement through the ages has been a forked twig, cut from hazel, willow, mistletoe, and other trees credited with special divining powers.
Other types of divining instruments have been made of gold, silver, or ivory. Some have been everyday articles such as a piece of clock spring, a buggy whip in horse-and-buggy times, or the metal pliers of today's automotive era.
Today's trained technicians in mineral hunting attribute any successes bv the diviners to luck or coincidence; or to the influence of more or less unconscious knowledge of the environment favoring the mineral's presence. In the latter case this knowledge, they say, may result in mental and muscular processes affecting the instruments.
These discredited unscientific rituals, the geophysics experts emphasize, should not be confused with the long-proven use of the magnetic needle to detect iron ore.
The operation in general involves the holding of the device in a certain position over likely ground, and watching for movements that indicate attraction toward the desired mineral. Sometimes there are other details, involving pendulums and vibrations.
Womanly Wiles Out Of Date
West Newbury, Mass.—(U.P.) Over a display of Maiden's Blush apples, fruit dealer Harry, Seagraves put this sign: "Maiden's Blush (obsolete)."
Official Attacked On Foreign Policy
Washington, Oct. 20 — (U.P.) A congressional critic of U. S.-China policy is now attacking an American official who warned six years ago that China might go Communist.
John Stewart Service, now being criticized by Rep. Walter Judd, (R., Minn.), for a 1944 armung urging Uncle Sam to get "hard-boiled" with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, warned on Jan. 23, 1944, that
1. Civil war in China was certain.
2. "Economic difficulties" might make Chinese peasants "fertile ground for Communist propaganda" and thus bring about a revolution in which the Communists would go "beyond the moderate democracy which (they) now claim to be seeking."
3. The Communist government "would probably not be democratic in the American sense."
Judd Wednesday made public the full text of Service's memo to his chief, Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, American forces commander in the China-Burma-India theater, on Oct. 10. 1944.
4. Probably the Red government "would be more inclined toward friendship and cooperation with Russia than with Great Britain or America."
Judd implied that the memo has been withheld from the China white paper because it showed Communist bias, and attacked any policy of backing Chiang Kai-Shek to the hilt. However, the white paper did carry extracts from the memo, which state department officials said contained the "strongest statements" therein.
Karl Edwards, principal of the University high school is in Battle Creek, Mich., this week attending a meeting of the North Central association. This organization deals with the accreditation of schools throughout this area.
University High Principal Attends NCAA Meeting
Strikes Force Shutdowns In Auto Industries
New York, met. Oct. 20—(U.P.)—Federal mediators met with United States Steel corporation officials today in a race against time to halt the spreading industrial crisis caused by the coal and steel strikes.
The Ford Motor company will stop all car and truck production by Nov. 15, a company spokesman said today.
The shutdowns in 49 Ford plants in all parts of the country will force layoffs of 100,000 of the company's 115,000 hourly-paid workers.
General Motors announced that more than 10,000 of its workers will be placed on a four-day week by Saturday, with little likelihood that the reduced-hours program would be extended to additional plants before the end of next week.
Chrysler corporation said "normal production" would continue Nov. 1, but a spokesman warned that shutdowns in all but the Plymouth division were "inevitable" shortly after that date.
Federal mediator Cyrus S. Ching called a second conference with big steel officials in a bid for peace with C.I.O. president Philip Murray's United Steelworkers.
Ching and two assistants met secretly with John A. Stephens, U.S. Steel vice president and other corporation officials, for five hours Wednesday. No announcement of progress was made.
The crisis was further heightened by the "hopeless" state of coal industry negotiations with United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.
Lewis walked out on the talk. Wednesday and operators wondered today whether he would return. Regardless of his action, observers believed the northern and western mine owners could not settle their contract fight with the U.M.W. without government intervention.
Chings hopes of making progress with U.S. Steel, the industry pace setter, on the deadlocked pension insurance issue were not improved by a speech by Irving S. Olds board chairman of U.S. Steel, Erie. Pa. Wednesday night.
Olds accused Murray, presiding of the United Steelworkers with "distorting" the strike's real issue which Olds said was the unwillingness of the industry to "agree in advance that it will pay the entire cost of social insurance and pensions."
Another industry leader, Edward L. Ryerson, board chairman of Iq. land Steel Co., make a bitter attack on Murray in a broadcast over the American Broadcasting company network from Chicago. He accused the C.I.O. chief of personal responsibility for the strike in a bid to "get his way."
15 Years Of Perfect Attendance Pays Off
Starkville, Miss. —(U,P)— Billy Burdine hasn't missed a day of school in 15 years—including elementary, high school and college. The strict attendance has paid
The strict attendance has paid off. Billy's grades were 96 per cent
off. Billy's grades were 96 per cent.
Matisthor likes to tell about the closest
son came to missing school. It was
in the second grade.
"His feet got cold in the snow on the way to school, and he came back home. I took off his shoes put his feet in my back pockets and carried him to school on my back."
Mrs. Feist In Hospital
Mrs. Frances Feist, instructor in speech, underwent emergency surgery Wednesday night at Watkins hospital. Her condition is reported good.