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STUDENT NEWSPAPER
78,000 Miners Back To Work Others Still Out
Pittsburgh, Oct. 3—(U.P.)-Anthraca miners returned to work today, ending a two week work-stoppage, but the nation's labor picture remained dark with nearly one million men idled by steel and coal pension strikes.
The 78,000 hard coal miners went back to work in the eastern Pennsylvania fields to relieve a growing coal shortage along the Eastern seaboard. The men were ordered back by United Mine Workers officials in fear that a prolonged strike would kill off the anthracite market.
Re-opening of the anthracite mines will not ease the shortage of soft coal and prospects for early set- tlement of the contract disputes in steel and coal are not good.
Every business and industry in the country eventually will be affected if the strikes in the two basic industries continue.
Government officials said they were virtually powerless to ease the spreading impact. The strikes, occurring simultaneously for the first time in history, packed the greatest single wallop ever dealt the American economy.
Both strikes, which cost nearly 900,000 steel and coal workers 11 million dollars a day in wages, started over pension disputes. Government intervention in the coal dispute appeared unlikely, but federal conciliation chief Cyrus Ching was expected to try to mediate the steel issues again sometime this week.
The three-day-old C.I.O. United Steelworkers strike was costing the steel industry an estimated 20 million dollars a day. The soft coal industry was losing 10 million dollars daily in business as a result of the two-week-old United Mine Workers strike.
C. I.O. President Philip Murray's strike call brought up 514,000 steel-workers in 24 states and choked production to less than five per cent of normal. Some 500,000 fabricating plant employees are scheduled to join the walkout by November if their companies fail to meet the union demands.
A proposed literary contest was discussed by the Quill club, national literary organization, at its first meeting of the semester.
The club will offer two five dollar prizes, one for a short story and the other for a poem. All entries are to be submitted to Miss Constance Kendall at the Pi Beta Phi sorority house, 1246 Mississippi street on or before Oct. 15.
Quill Club Offers Prize
Ideas were discussed for the improving of Trend. Some members believe the publication should be more collegiate and reflect current literary styles. The group will study other literary publications for new ideas.
Publicity chairman will be Kay Shelton, College freshman. The editorial board consists of John Messelhof, graduate student; Edward Chapin, journalism junior; Miss Jeanne Rose, education senior; and Miss Constance Kendall, education junior.
The winning entries will be published in Trend, the club's publication.
A membership drive plan was adopted. Under the plan, any student wishing to join the Quill club must submit a poem or short story
Spike Jones Show Seats Still Left
Seats at all prices are still available for the "Musical Depreciation Revue of 1950." Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the Alumni Association, said today.
Tickets for the show will be on sale at the business office in Strong hall until 5 p.m. Tuesday. Box offices in Hoch auditorium will open at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday. The revue will start at 8 p.m.
Elbel Appointed KU Liaison Man
Dr. Edwin R. Elbel, director of the University veteran's bureau, has been appointed liaison representative between the air force and the faculty and student body of the University. The appointment was made recently in a letter from headquarters tenth air force through the Fairfax Field Reserve unit, Kansas City, to Dr. Elbel.
Dr. Elbel, a lieutenant colonel during the war and a reserve officer at present, has an intimate knowledge of both military and educational policies and problems. He will provide valuable service for the University and the air force by advising and recommending on matters of mutual concern.
He will also contribute to the air force reserve program by performing liaison functions between the air force, air force reserve, and air force R.O.T.C. personnel attending the University.
Chinese Take Two US Ships In Blockade
Shanghai, China, Oct. 3- (U.P.) Nationalist warships enforcing the blockade of Communist-held Chinese ports have forced two American merchant ships to follow them to a Nationalist base in the Chusan islands, agents for the ships said today.
The ships, loaded with millions of dollars of cargo, are the Isbrandt-sen line's flying independent and flying clipper which were intercepted and boarded by Nationalist sailors last week while outbound from Communist-held Shanghai.
The A. P. Pattisen Agency said the warships threatened to fire at the merchantmen unless their orders were followed.
Reports from Hong Kong said it had been learned there that American Charge d'Affairs Robert Strong had been ordered by the state department to register a "strong protest" with the Nationalist government in Canton over seizure of the ships.
A third Isbrandtssen liner, the Flying Trader, also was intercepted in the same manner and now lies some 30 miles outside the mouth of the Yangtze river near Shanghai. The Trader was inbound.
U. S. state department and naval authorities are being informed of all developments in the international dispute touched off when the line reached the Nationalist blockade.
Medical Center Photometer New Weapon In Cancer Fight
The photometer, a new weapon in the battle to solve the mystery of cancer, has been unveiled at the University Medical Center in Kansas City.
The instrument, which weighs 600 pounds, is capable of measuring the absorption of light in one trillionth of a cubic inch of a single 1. It was constructed under the
The only one of its kind in the United States, the photometer is a copy and an improvement on a similar instrument at the Institute of Cell Research. Stockholm, Sweden. Dr Stowell worked for a year with Dr. Torbjorn O. Caperson of the Institute before coming to the University to head the cancer project.
cell. It was constructed under the supervision of Dr. Robert E. Stowell, professor of oncology and pathology, and two graduate students, Gordon G. Wiseman and Leland S. Bohl, in Blake hall over a period of 18 months. Parts were made to specification by engineering students in Fowler shops with the help of Dr. Donald G. Wilson, associate professor of electrical engineering, adviser on the project.
The photometer is about 15 feet long and has three main sections, the light producing section, the microscope section, and measuring section. Flowing water is used to cool a match-size mercury tube light that has a proportional surface brightness one-fifth that of the sun. Electric motors are used to operate the cooling system, sector blades and base
Some of the causes of cancerous "wild-cell growth" may be revealed by measuring the differences in light absorption between normal and diseased cells, one of the functions for which the instrument was designed. The full technical name of the instrument is "ultraviolet micro spectro photometer."
controls on which the specimen of cell tissue rests below the microscope.
Light from the ultraviolet side of the spectrum is broken into bands in the monocromator. Different parts of the cell absorb light of different wavelengths. The light passes through the tissue under the microscope and then beams through a hollow metal tube into the photomultiplier measuring section. Another hollow tube transmits the light which has not passed through the specimen tissue.
The photomultiplier tubes measure the light by transferring it into electrical currents. The absorption within the tissue is figures by reading a rotating variable sector which balances the intensity of light coming through the specimen, with the control light. The action of nucleic acids in cells will be the center of the primary investigation with the new light absorption measuring instrument.
- Three other instruments have been brought into the battle against cancer. They are a new electronic microscope, a densitometer, which measures light absorption from photographic exposures, and an ultraviolet microscope, which will show the ultraviolet absorbing substance in tissue.
The University has received about $200,000 in grants from the National Cancer institute of the U. S. Public Health service, the American Cancer society, the Damon Runyan fund, the Atomic Energy commission and from private sources. Another $200,000 has been promised in grants when the Basic Sciences building is constructed at the University's Medical center.
Slide Rule Course Starts Wednesday
An eight-week slide rule course will be offered by the School of Engineering beginning at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5. Any student may take the course.
There are no fees, and no credit hours are given.
Charles Baer of the engineering drawing department will direct the course. The class will meet in room 101, Snow hall.
Graduates Study City Problems
The six college graduates who last spring received $1,000 fellowships in city management from the University for nine months of on-the-job graduate study will meet here Thursday, Friday, and Saturday to discuss problems that have arisen during their first six weeks of internship.
William E. Hansen, city manager of Pittsburg, will speak to the graduate trainees Thursday, Prof. Edwin O. Stene; secretary of the Committee on Training for City Management, said today. Friday and Saturday Mr. Hansen will lead informal discussions on problems the trainees have encountered during their training.
Several universities offer graduate courses in city management, but K.U. is the only one in which the trainee returns to the school during his nineteen-month internship for consultation with his problems, Professor Stene said.
Two of the six trainees, are K.U. graduates. They are James W. Bibb, 48, who is interning in the department of research and information in Kansas City. Mo. and William Case, 49, is also training in Kansas City in the office of the city manager. The other four trainees graduated in 1948, one from each of the following schools: Michigan State college, Baker university, University of Kansas City, and Kansas State college.
This is the first year that fellowships for graduate study in city administration have been given by the University. The fellowships are for the second year of a two year course leading to the degree master of public administration. The first year is spent in residence study here, while the second year students have jobs with city managers. This year trainees are working in Wichita, El Dorado, Winfield, and Kansas City, Mo.
Council Discusses KU Honor System
The Presidents' council has decided to support the Student-Faculty conference scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 10.
The council also decided to take the question of an honor system to their own groups for discussion and to bring definite plans for its promotion to the next meeting in October.
Ways were considered to divide the coming conference into discussion groups after evaluating the Student-Faculty conference of the past year.
Leaders of 14 campus organizations attended the meeting of the Presidents' council which included the president $ \alpha $ highest ranking woman in such organizations as, Independent Students association, Jay James, Y W.C.A., Interdorm and Panhellenic councils, and the senate and house of Associated Women students. Its purposes are to compare ideas of the various organizations on the campus and to act as an activities co-ordinating body for them.
Parade, Rally In Nightshirts To Be Friday
Nightshirt clad men with women wearing blue jeans and pigtails will take part in the University's traditional nightshirt parade and pep rally at 7:30 Friday.
Led by the cheerleaders, the costumed freshmen will leave the Union, march down Oread drive to 12th street, and turn east to South park where a bonfire rally will be held.
Following the pep session the group will march in serpentine fashion up Massachusetts street, moving north to Robinson park near the bridge. Jay Janes, Ku Ku's, and Kimen will serve refreshments in the park.
Thirteen University students have been named for acting parts in "The Male Animal," K.U. speech and drama department production, which will be given Tuesday, Oct. 25, through Friday, Oct. 28, in Fraser theater.
The paraders will be given free tickets to a 9:15 p. m. movie at the Varsity and Patee theaters. Admittance to the theaters will be by ticket only. A contest to choose the best dressed parader is scheduled for 11:15 p. m. at the Granada theater. This will be followed by a free movie at 11:30 p. m. The program is being sponsored by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, the Commonwealth theaters, and the Javhawk theater.
Final plans for the event are being made by the nightshirt parade committee, headed by Walter Brown, member of the traditions committee of the All Student Council. Members of the parade committee are L. C. Woodruff, dean of men; Leslie Roenigk, head cheerleader; Mary Lou Fischer, Jay Jane president; William Chalfant, Ku Ku president; Richard Menuet, traditions committee chairman; and Pat Dunne, traditions committee member.
Male Animal Cast Chosen
The plot of the light satire concerns the romantic triangle of an English professor, his wife, and a former All-American football player. A similar sub-plot involves the college-age sister of the professor's wife, her "steady" boy friend, and the current football hero. The setting is the weekend of the homecoming game at a Middle Western college.
The east includes Ida White as Cleota; Betsy Dillon as Ellen Turner; Courtney as Prof. Tom Turner; Kathryn Peters, fine arts sophomore, as Patricia Stanley; Robert Carl, journalism senior, as football star, Wally Meyers; Bob Allen as the university's Dean Damon, and Ernest Coombs as Michael Barnes.
Don Harling, College senior, is cast as Don Ferguson, Bettie Sage as Mrs. Damon, Loren Rell, College senior, as Ed Keller, Frank La Ban as "Nutsy" Miller, Tom Payne, college sophomore, as a newspaper reporter, and Jeanne Hardy as Myrtle Keller.
WEATHER
Kansas—Partly cloudy today,
tonight and Tuesday with occasional light drizzle likely this forenoon in extreme east. No important temperature change. High today 75 to 80. Low tonight upper 40° northwest to near 60 southeast.