University Daily Kansan
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Lawrence, Kansas
'Tokyo Rose Given 10 Years, $10,000 Fine
San Francisco,—(U.P.)—Convicted traitor Iva Toguri D'Aquino was sentenced to serve 10 years in prison and fined $10,000 by Federal Judge Michael J. Roche.
Mrs. D'Aquino, 33-year-old American woman who became the voice of "Tokyo Rose" on a series of Japanese propaganda programs beamed to allied troops during the war, showed no visible emotion as sentence was pronounced.
The attorney said he planned an immediate appeal to the Ninth U. S Circuit Court of Appeals.
Roche also denied motions by defense council Wayne M. Collins for arrest of judgement, for acquittal and for a new trial.
Mrs. D'Aquino was convicted last week by a jury of six men and six women on one count of an eight-count indictment after a 56-day trial—longest treason trial in U. S. history. Specifically, she was found guilty of broadcasting to allied troops over Radio Tokyo following the battle of Leyte gulf;
"Orphans of the Pacific, now you are really orphans. Now all your ships are gone. How are you going to get home now?"
Mrs. D'Aquino, a petite brunette who dropped from 130 pounds to 98 during the gruelling three-months trial, remained mute when Roche asked her if she had anything to say before he passed sentence.
Just before sentence was pronounced, Roche said, "The court will refrain from making any comment. Although several could be made, no useful purpose would be served."
Mrs. D'Aquino could have been sentenced to death. The minimum sentence for treason is five years and a fine of $10,000.
Collins made an impassioned plea for clemency based on the fact that Mrs. D'Aquino ended up in jail for her part in the Radio Tokyo broadcasts while some of the allied prisoners of war, who helped write the scripts for the shows, "still are in the army and those that are, have all gained promotions."
Prosecutor Tom DeWolf, opposing Collins' pleas for a new trial, summed up the state's case by saying "The defendant had a fair trial, was accorded all her legal rights but committed one of the heinous offenses known."
World Series Score
Seventh Inning
Dodgers 1, Yankees 1
KU, K-State Will Sign Peace Pact
The annual signing of the peace pact between K.U. and Kansas State college will be held at the Gillette hotel in Manhattan, Monday, Oct. 10.
Fifteen All Student Council representatives will be present.
The signing of the pact is to prevent vandalism during the week end of the K. U.-Kansas State football game. The past year $50 worth of damage was done the K.U. campus. The K-State offenders paid the damages to their student council, who in turn sent the money to K.U.
For the third straight year, the University Daily Kansan has received an All American rating from the Associated Collegiate press, the Kansan was informed Thursday.
Kansan Receives Honor Rating
The rating is the highest awarded by the A. C. P., and is for the 1949 spring semester. An all American newspaper is ranked as "superior."
Merchants To Unveil Fall Fashions As Part Of Nightshirt Celebration
Bill Mayer, '49, was managing editor for the first half of the semester, and Anna Murphy, '49, was the editor-in-chief. For the second half of the semester, John Stauffer, '49, was managing editor and John Riley, who is now an assistant managing editor, was the editor-in-chief.
The Kansan scored 920 points out of a possible 1,055 to receive the rating.
Seventeen university and college daily newspapers received the All American rating in the 41st annual critical service, the A. C. P. reported.
Lawrence retail merchants will unveil newly decorated windows of fall merchandise at 7:30 p.m. tonight, during the University Nightshirt parade.
The Kansan received its first All American rating in the spring of 1947 when Emil L. Telfel, assistant professor of journalism, was the news faculty adviser. The award received Thursday is for the first semester that Walter E. Ewert, assistant professor of journalism, served as faculty adviser to the Kansan.
Ceramists To Take Trip Next Week
A field trip to south-central Kansas will be taken next week by Norman Plummer and W. B. Hadlak, ceramists of the state geological survey.
They will visit Sedgwick, Sumner, Marion, and Dickinson counties to collect clay samples for laboratory tests. The clays will be tested for general ceramics uses with particar emphasis on usefulness in concrete block and roadbuilding material.
Mr. Plummer and Mr. Hladik were in Doniphan, Atchison, and Brown counties the past week making a similar trip.
Shorter skirts will be among the displays of the latest fall and winter fashions. Mrs. Alice Johnson, chairman of the retail merchants' division of the Chamber of Commerce, said women's skirts will be up to 12 and 13 inches from the ground.
The latest style features include skirts, and small roll collars on skirts, and small roll locators on suits and jackets. Mrs. Johnson said popular colors are the high shades of royal, blue and green, and the deeper greys, browns, and blacks. Prices are not going up, she added.
Freshmen Dressed For Bed Highlight Nightshirt Parade
Unsettled. Considerable cloudiness today, tonight and Saturday. A few scattered light showers tonight and Saturday foroono, mostly in east and north. Cooler northwest and north central Saturday afternoon. High today 60 to 65 northwest to near 80 southeast.
The traditional nightshirt parade will begin at 7:45 tonight in front of the Union.
Freshman men clad in nightshirts and freshmen women wearing blue jeans and with their hair in pig tails will follow the band and Jay Janes down Oread drive and 14th street to South Park for a bon fire rally. Marching behind the freshmen will be the Ku Kui's
the freshmen will be the Ku Ku's and K-Men.
After the rally, the nightshirtiers will serpentine along Massachusetts street to Robinson park near the bridge. There Jay James, Ku Ku's and K-Men will serve refreshments supplied by the Chamber of Commerce to all freshmen in costume.
Lawrence merchants will hold their annual fall opening during and after the parade. A feature of their program will be contests in guessing the retail value of merchandise displayed in decorated store windows.
A contest to choose the best dressed parader will be held at 11:15 p.m. at the Granada theater. A free movie of football highlights of '48 and the regular feature will be shown after the contest.
The program is sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce, which includes Lawrence businessmen, the Jayhawker theater, and the Commonwealth theaters.
Nightshirt parades began in 1905 as a substituite for the annual freshman-sophomore fight, according to a Kansan article quoted by chemistry professor Robert Taft in his book "Across the Years on Mt. Oread."
At the first parade, he said, 200 freshmen clad in nightshift marched along Lawrence streets, even visited the opera house, and ended by calling on Chancellor Strong, whom they found similarly dressed.
Engineers To Test New Auto Engine
Senior mechanical engineering students at the University will soon be testing a high compression engine which the department of mechanical engineering received as a gift this fall.
The Cadillac division of General Motors corp. presented the motor, a V-8 engine, which may be the forerunner of automobile engines with very high compression ratios. High compression ratios make possible more power and efficiency for a given size engine. It is the same engine as that used in the 1949 Cadillac. The research department of the Cadillac company developed the motor under the direction of Charles Kettering.
Harry L. Daasch, chairman of the mechanical engineering department, said that the engine is being prepared to mount on a dynamometer, a performance testing machine, in the laboratory. Professor Daasch said the engine could be modified whenever higher compression fuels are available.
Miss Swineford Returns
After spending a two-year leave studying at Pennsylvania State college, Ada Swineford, employee of the state geological survey, returned this week to resume her research.
Miss Swineford has been studying for her doctorate. During the course of her studies, she did special research with the electron microscope. The electron microscope shows minute details of rock material more clearly. Miss Swineford's doctorate thesis concerns the mid-confident red beds which are sedimentary strata, largely Permian and Triassic.
Early Printing Art On Display
A collection of Oriental paintings, 18th and 19th century American and European pewter, and rare books collected by the late Dr. Frank Burnett Dains, professor emeritus of chemistry, and the late Mrs. Dains is on display in the University Museum of Art.
The exhibit can be viewed from 1:30 to 5 p.m. on Sunday and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday in the east room of the Museum of Art. This is the first time that the collection, given to the University by Mr. and Mrs. Dains, has been shown in its entirety, Dr. John Maxon, director of the museum, said. It will be shown until the end of October.
Included in the exhibit are rare 16th century Italian and French books and Chinese bronze objects.
Dr. Dains was one of the founders of the University department of chemistry and had studied and travelled widely in Europe. He retired in 1942 after 32 years on the University faculty. He died Jan. 5, 1948. His widow, Mrs. Alice Haight Dains, died in July, 1949.
The University Daily Kansan incorrectly referred to Dr. Dains and Mrs. Dains as "Professor and Mrs. Frank B. Davis" in Thursday's Kansan. The Kansan regrets this error.
UN Officials Plan To Oppose Yugoslav Hopes
Yugoslavia, virtually assured of election to the security council after weeks of campaigning, would be given the "sour apple" reward of a seat on the less-important economic and social council, the sources said.
It was believed that Washington would insist on seeing Russian cooperation on the Greek question before making any commitment on Yugoslavia. An American source said it was highly unlikely that the U.S. support of Yugoslavia's candidacy would be withdrawn.
Lake Success, N. Y., Oct. 7—(U.P.) Top level United Nations officials are pushing a plan to scuttle Yugoslavia's hopes for a security council seat in exchange for major Russian concessions on the Greek question, well-informed sources said today.
The intense interest of top U. N. officials in avoiding a new east-west crisis indicated that they viewed the tension between Russia and the west, focussed on Yugoslavia's feud with the Kremlin and the Cominform, with more gravity than appeared on the surface.
Jacob A. Malik, Russia's chief troubleshooter disappointed U. N. observers Thursday when he took part in discussions among the Big Five powers and Canada for the first time and gave no hint that the Soviet position on world atomic control had changed.
The plan, under discussion for more than a week in U. N. offices, would call upon the United States to drop its support of Yugoslavia's candidacy for the council in opposition to the Russian-sponsored candidate, Czechoslovakia. In exchange, Russia would be asked to agree to a solution of Greece's quarrel with her northern neighbors about their aid to Greek guerillas and drop all support of the partisans.
There's a history to the red, black, and white signs sprinkled over the campus for bidding smoking in buildings.
Smoking Forbidden In 1913 Around Women Students
Recorded history begins with a direction from the Board of Administration in 1913 ruling out smoking in University buildings or their steps or approaches. Discouraging the early 'let-females-smoke-too' campaigners, the
Recorded history begins with a ministration in 1913 ruling out their steps or approaches. Disc smoke-too' campaigners, the board announced further that smoking on the grounds where women students or visitors congregated would be regarded with disfavor. The board said, it would be better if students refrained entirely from smoking on the campus.
In the 1834 the men's student council said many universities banned smoking entirely. Smokers were directed to obey the rules of where and when to smoke. To help those afflicted with short memories, the council voted to hire someone to ask forgetful smokers to step outside.
Through the first World War, the era of the flapper, and the Big Apple the fag addicts lost their sense of duty to protect women and visitors from the evils of their habit. They also lost their awareness of the fire hazards and appearance of indoor smoking.
The same year the state investigated the use of marijuana, which students were rumored to be using. No one was found who knew anything about it.
World War II brought the cigaret shortage. University coeds, equal
to the situation, turned to pipe smoking. A clerk in a Lawrence drug store sold a whole card of 25 cent corn cob pipes to women students. A Los Angeles paper gave University girls credit for starting a minor national nad.
Physician Will Speak On Labrador Trip
Missionary work in Laborador will be discussed by Dr. W. O. Nelson, Lawrence physician, at a Roger Williams foundation meeting to be held at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, at the First Baptist church.
The mission is located on the Labrador coast and was founded by Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, an English medical missionary. The main hospital at the settlement contains 100 beds. Five nursing stations along the coast are maintained by the mission and manned by a handful of doctors and nurses, Dr. Nelson said.
The trip to St. Anthony was made by ship from Montreal by Dr. Nelson. It is about 1,000 miles across the water route. Slides on the trip will be shown. The meeting is open to the public.