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Friday, Oct. 14, 1949
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Lawrence, Kansas
11 Communists Found Guilty Of Conspiracy
New York, Oct. 14—(J.U.P.) All 11 top leaders of the American Communist party were found guilty in federal court today of conspiracy to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the government.
The jury returned to the courtroom at 11:27 a.m. after having deliberated seven hours and two minutes. The jury foreman Mrs. Thelma Dial, reported that the jury had found "each of the defendants guilty."
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The jury's decision in effect outlaws the U. S. Communist party. U. S. Attorney John F. X. McGhey, who prosecuted the Communists, had warned that "if the Communist party goes underground, the F.B.I. will go right along with them."
The Communists did not move a muscle when the verdict was announced. They all sat erect. There was no sound in the courtroom.
Each defendant faces a maximum sentence of 10 years imprisonment and a fine of $10,000.
Thus ended the nine-month trial of the U. S. Communist Party National board.
The young writer must be "sincere in what he believes," said Mrs. Katherine Mix, instructor in English, in speaking to the Quill club Thursday.
Quill Club Hears Author
Thursday.
Mrs. Mix, who began writing for the New Yorker magazine in 1940, spoke on "Selling Stories."
"I firmly believe," said Mrs. Mix. "that if a person wants to write, and if he keeps at it long enough, he_will succeed."
It is hard for a beginner to get an agent, Mrs. Mix said, but after a person has a "name" it is no trouble at all.
"Agencies are big money." Mrs. Mix stated, "and if you are not going to write for the slick magazine, an agent is not going to do you much good."
The first story Mrs. Mix wrote for publication was a spy story about a German woman she had known in Stockholm Sweden. She received $160 for the story. Upon the publication of the story, she received letters from two agents who asked to represent her.
"You must decide what you want to write, pick out a magazine, and then slant your material toward that magazine." Mrs. Mix said.
Continuing her discussion of agents, Mrs. Mixed stated that most agents that advertise "must be taken with a grain of salt."
The next meeting of the Quill club will be at the home of John E. Hankins, professor of English. Professor Hankins is the national president of the Quill club organization.
KANSAS: Partly cloudy today, cooler east and south. Generally fair tonight and Saturday. Cooler east tonight and warmer west and central Saturday. The high today will range from 60 to 65 northwest to 65 to 70 southeast.
It was announced that the Quill club contest has been extended until Friday, Oct. 28, and that short stories and poetry entries will be accepted in Professor Hankins' office 211 Fraser.
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Lawyers For Reds Receive Sentences
New York, Oct. 14—(U.P.)—Federal judge Harold R. Medina today sentenced six defense attorneys in the Communist trial to prison terms for contempt of court.
Eugene Dennis, Communist general secretary who acted as his own counsel, and Harry Sacher, labor attorney, received sentences of six months.
Richard H. Gladstein, of San Francisco, labor attorney on the west coast, also received a six-month sentence.
Louis McCabe of Philadelphia, who has handled many civil liberties cases, received a 30-day sentence.
George W. Crockett, Jr., of Detroit, received a four-month sentence.
A. J. Isserman, of New York,
was sentenced to four months.
Medina ordered the sentences to begin on Nov. 15.
Remodel Library For Architects
Remodeling of the architectural library is nearing completion. Professor George M. Beal, head of the architecture department, announced that the library should be ready for use by the first of next week.
In the past, control of the books has been a problem, according to Professor Beal, because all the students had access to the stacks. Under the new system the stacks will be separated from the study room and student librarians will be in charge of the library. Hours will be from 8 a.m. through noon and 1 through 5 p.m.
Wiley Names 90 Members Of KU Symphony Orchestra
Members of the orchestra are:
First violins: Raymond, Cerf Maxine Albury, Donald C. Stewart,
Betty Breitag, Pauline M. Reade,
Charlotte A. Maxev, Phyllis A.
Jones, Delores E. Wunsch, Orion
M. Mehus, Evelyn Clough, Lucille
Stratton, Frances E. Rinehart, Dana
Richmond.
Second Violins: Betty Cobb, Mary Sommerville, Marilyn M. Gaw, Janet L. Lull, Sally Adams, Clara Childers, Carolyn Lacey, Jane Haywood, Clara James, Howard W. Hallman, Billie I. George, Freda M. Jones, Margaret Stewart, William M. Nelson, Mary R. McVay, Caroline Traynor, Lois Edwards.
Members of the 90-piece University Symphony orchestra have been announced by Russell L. Wiley, conductor of the orchestra. The group will make its first appearance at the All-Musical vespers Sunday, Nov. 20. The orchestra will play the first movement of Dvorak's "Symphony No. 5 in E minor". The annual winter concert will be Monday, Dec. 5.
Cello: Merle H. Clayton, Maurice E. Pollon, Martha Baxter, Shirley L. Foster, Carl S. Bilger, Lyle C. Wolfrom, Bob Stewart, Charles Smith, Dale Kempter, Mildred Simpson, Dorothy Twente.
Students enrolled in Intermediate Methods, another music education course taught by Dr. Jorgensen, learn to make drums from tin cans fitted with pieces of rubber inner tubes or old drum slims. Later, as teachers, these students will teach children to make their own percussion instruments.
Clarinets: Shirley S. Kassinger, Richard K. Lading, Robert D. Ausherman, Raymond Zepp.
Bass Violins: Jane Koenig, Robert Craine, Art Nease, John Hawkins, Keith Palmquist, James C. McCaig, Jo Stiles, Jerome F. Mandl Oboes: Gerald L. Hall, Jack Williams.
Members of the orchestra are:
Viola: Karel Blaas, Emily S. Sloan,
Frances Rushlau, Al Long, Charles
W. Kassinger.
Flutes: Jacqueline Cook, Carol M. Martin, Mary H. Ryder, Stan Lehmberg.
An autoharp is used to help teach harmony of different notes to intermediate grade children. The auto-
Mass Choirnet: Charles C. Mollia
Bassoonss: Duncan I. Sommerville
Georgiannia R. Bennington, Phyllis
Glass, David Jones.
Bass Clarinet: Charles C. Molina
Music Education Students Play With Toy Instruments
Practicing "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" on a tambourine and a homemade drum sounds like "grade school stuff" and that's just what it is for University students enrolled in Primary Methods. The course for prospective music teachers is taught by Dr. Elin Jorgensen, associate professor of music education.
The rhythm band is emphasized in lower grades. Rhythm seems to strike the first responsive chord in small children, Dr. Jorgensen said. Thus it is the basis of further musical instruction.
Even a most casual glacial into 31. Strong hall when the class is in session sets the passerby's curiosity on edge. Students may be seen as a rhythm band marching around the room to the tune of a selection from "New Music Horizons, Book 2," one of the texts used by Kansas elementary schools. The class is a laboratory in which students may try out ideas for later use with their own pupils.
Home work for the Primary Methods class includes learning to play the tonette, "sweet potato," toy flute, and even musical glasses. The student learns to play simple tunes to demonstrate to his pupils the differences in pitch of each instrument and of each glass. He must also teach his pupils to play these instruments.
harp is an instrument which plays chords. Teaching children how to know when music is faster, slower, louder, or softer is a problem which is often solved by the use of actions with a song.
One music education senior believes some first graders are unusually sharp. During her practice teaching session she asked her pupils to try matching tones with her own voice. She would sing, "You are a chicken," in a high pitched voice. The children were supposed to sing the same phrase back in the same pitch. When she sang, "You are a rooster," to the class, one little boy startled her with "Cockle doodle doo!"
Dr. Jorgensen's classes observe grades in the Lawrence schools regularly. She believes this to be one of the most valuable parts of the course. Since an elementary teacher must teach reading, riting, and rithemic—besides music—the class can learn how to co-ordinate these courses. They also may study the children's reactions to music instruction.
Cornets: James E. Sellards.
Jeanne E. Peck, Tom C. Lovitt.
Colleges are turning out other qualified music teachers as a result of courses like this, Dr. Jorgensen said. High school teachers who have studied how children first learn to appreciate music can apply that background in their own teaching.
French horns: Frank G. Kress.
Jacqueline Helleberg, Samuel L.
Eitel, David A. Seamans, Charles
L. Childers, Marilyn Lind, Garry
Graham.
Trombones: Gene Orcutt, Mary Van Houten, Neill Humfeld Melvin Cottom. Tuba: James Childers.
Tobin. Tubal Sturges
Tympani: Ronald Wigington
Harp: Florence H. Oberg.
Industrial Show Gets KU Exhibit
Three phases of University activity which tie in with industrial operation and promotion will be shown at the third annual Kansas Manufacturers show to be held in Wichita Tuesday, Oct. 18 through Sunday, Oct. 23.
Five large panels, approximately 10 to 20 feet, will display phases of the School of Engineering and Architecture, industrial research procedures, and the University Extension program. The exhibit is being handled by University Extension, under the direction of Dean Frank T. Stockton. The show is set up to display only articles processed, assembled, or manufactured in Kansas.
At least one University student, Calvin E. Cooley, business senior, will show his invention in the newly-added inventors exposition. He will display a terracing machine for farm use. Officials expect as many as 100 inventions which are not yet in production to be shown.
Dean Stockton is chairman of the industrial Council of the Kansas State Chamber of Commerce. Other faculty members on the council are Paul Malone, director of the bureau of business research; Dr. J. O. Maloney, director of the research foundation; Arthur Inman, assistant director of the research foundation; and T. DeWitt Carr, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture.
The new color movie, "Your University," will be shown almost continuously on a small screen arranged in the center of the display panels. Movies relating to industrial operation, such as petroleum, zinc, and gas production, may also be shown.
Chiapusso To Give Chopin Recital
The School of Fine Arts will present Jan Chiapusso, professor of piano in all-Chopin recital at 8 p. m. Monday, Oct. 17 in Hoch auditorium. The recital will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of the Polish composer Frederic Chopin.
The K. U. branches of the Y.M.C. A. and W.Y.C.A. will attend the 'Y Fall Planning conference Saturday, Oct. 22, at Manhattan. All regional branches of the organization will attend the conference.
Mr. Chiapuso came to the University in 1934 from Chicago where he was head of the piano department at Bush conservatory and lecturer in music history at the University of Chicago. He was born in Java, Dutch West Indies, and received his early education in Holland. He is a graduate of the Cologne conservatory and has made several concert tours in Europe and the United States.
Cancer Research Findings Told To Sigma Xi Group
Research in cancer has proved that there are many possible causes of the disease, Dr. R. E. Stowell, director of the cancer research program for the School of Medicine, said at the Sigma Xi meeting Thursday. Sigma Xi is a national honorary society for scientific research.
Ultraviolet rays, thermal rays,
soot, coal tar, hormones, heredity,
milk factors, chronic irritation, and
many other causes may be responsible for pre-cancerous condition
and possibly cancer.
"This does not mean that these things are a direct cause." Dr. Stowell said. "Just because a mother had cancer doesn't mean that her children will have it. It may mean, however, that person may have more of a chance if having it."
"Percentages of cancer run higher in sailors and farmer than in certain other professions. Doctors believe this may be from excessive exposure to the sun."
"Early discovery of the disease may mean a better chance of recovery." Dr. Stowell said.
At present the treatment for cancer is removal of the tumor by surgery or radiation treatment. Research has revealed that two other types of treatment, isotopes and chemotherapy are helpful. Isotopes are radio active substances which combat cancerous cells. Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer by the use of chemicals. Chemical substances have been found which destroy tumors.
University members will put on a model cabinet meeting as their part of the conference. Mr. Eugene Dawson, 'Y' leader at Pittsburgh State Teachers college will speak. Those who would care to attend the conference are invited by M. David Riggs, general secretary to sign their name on the bulletin boards in either the Y.M.C.A. or W.Y.C. A. office in the Union building. A round-trip bus ticket and a banquet are included in a $1.75 ticket. The group will leave on a chartered bus Saturday morning, Oct. 22, and return the same evening at 10:00.
'Y' To Attend Conference
There will be a meeting of the M.C.A. advisory board at 7:30 p. m.
Tuesday, Oct. 18 in the home of Lloyd Houston, chairman.
University women students are urged to join the A.W.S. "twenty cents" drive to fulfill its Memorial scholarship.
AWS Begins Drive To Meet $2000 Goal
A. W.S. is $453 short of the $2,000 goal set to propagate its Memorial scholarship. The fund would provide $50 a year to a university student.
The scholarship is automatically deduced to $37.50 yearly unless the goal is met within three years. Twenty cents from each K.U. woman student will perpetuate the fund yearly at the $50 a year rate. Contributions may be turned in at 212 Frank Strong hall.