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Europe Starts Trade War For US Dollars
London, Sept. 21—(U.P.)The British Labor government began a trade war on European neighbors today in an effort to capture the American and Canadian dollar markets.
British board of trade president Harold Wilson ordered exporters to strike quickly with the new cheap pound to seize and hold the North American market for European goods.
Wilson's orders were to sacrifice the sale of goods elsewhere in the world if necessary but to bring the dollars to Britain.
Quick action by other European nations to devolve their currencies, particularly France, was designed to bolster British threat in the dollar markets.
French finance minister Maurice Petsche said British devaluation of the pound from $4.03 to $2.80 had led to a decline in European trade war for dollar markets.
At the same time devaluation in Western Europe set off the first flutter of inflation and unrest began to stir among labor unions.
Labor leaders in Britain, France and Italy already were battling their governments for wage increases Unions in Holland, Sweden and Norway threatened to demand increases if prices rise.
Some 50,000 British railway workers in the London area were scheduled to start a slowdown strike at midnight to support demands for a $1.40 a week wage increase made before devaluation was announced.
1. Greece and Belgium joined the devaluation bandwagon. Belgium lowered the franc-dollar rate to 50 francs for $1 instead of 43.8275. The Begian franc increased in relations to the pound—140 of the new francs against the old rate of 146.50.
Other developments:
2. The Italian lira slumped 10 percent in official value in keeping with the dollar's rise on the export market.
3. Former prime minister Winston Churchill called his "shadow cabinet" into session today to plot Conservative party tactics against the Labor government in devaluation debate when parliament meets.
4. Prime minister Clement Attlee is expected to announce within 24 hours when parliament will be summoned into extraordinary session.
The students, Don Becker, Marvin Dunn and Raymond Christy, occupied the southeast corner room of the third floor of the building. The door of the room was locked and the blaze had evidently burned for some time before it was discovered. Christy said.
Fire of undetermined origin destroyed school supplies, furniture and personal effects of three premedical students at the Phi Chi fraternity house, 1233 Oread drive, shortly after noon today.
Among the school supplies destroyed was a new typewriter purchased two days ago. Medical books and clothing of unknown value were also burned.
Books Burn In Phi Chi Fire
The building is covered by insurance, but Christy, treasurer of the fraternity, said he did not know whether or not the personal effects would be included.
Three boxes of 38 caliber shells were stored in the room presenting additional hazards to the firemen. No one was injured, however.
Poetry No Help To This Student
Instructor: Young man, can you tell me what poetry is?
This conversation was heard in the first session of a Composition and Literature III class Tuesday;
Student: I believe it is an outlet for the emotions.
Instructor: Have you ever written any poetry?
Student: No.
Instructor: But have you ever felt a need to release your own emotions?
Student: No, sir. I'm a fine arts major.
Lorraine Ross, College junior, will conduct the New Student Activities discussions at 7:30 p.m. today in the Kansas room of the Union.
Panel Discussion Set For Tonight
The meeting will begin with a round table discussion of the ways to choose and to enter various activities, and will emphasize the importance of budgeting your time and entering only as many activities as your spare time will justify.
Nine former students will then tell the new women something about the activities in which they themselves participate and how each may be entered. After the meeting is over, the activity representatives will stay to answer any questions the new students might have.
Organizations and representatives which will be present are as follow
Margaret Granger, Union Activities; Marian Rippeteau, Publications; Nancy Smith, Y.W.C.A.; Arlene Hill. W.A.A.; Grace Gwinner A.W.S.; Bernice Brady, Speech and Drama; Mary Lou Fisher, War Memorial committee and Red Peppers and Marjorie Crane, International club.
Careless Sheriff Loses Horse
Norman, Okla., Sept. 21—(U.P.)
Sheriff Jess Jack searched today
for the thief who stole his horse
from the backyard of his home.
Schools Hold Re-enrollment For Students
College and journalism students may make course changes in the College office and in the corridor on the second floor of Strong hall. They should enter the east door and go up the stairway.
Re-enrollment in the Schools of Education, Journalism, Pharmacy and the College is being held today from 2 to 5 p.m.
Schools of Education and Pharmacy are holding their schedules in their respective offices in 103 Fraser and 215 Bailey. They will keep the same hours as the College.
Law students have two weeks in which to make changes, and the School of Business will consider a change up to four weeks. Engineers and architects must alter schedules Saturday, and graduates and fine arts majors may change their schedules any time by calling at their respective offices.
Student Directories To Appear Nov.1
This year's student-faculty directories will be available Nov. 1, at no cost to students, Doug Paddock, All Student Council publications committee chairman, said today.
The style of type will be like that used in 1947-48. Also the shape, size, and color of the directories will be different than in the 1948-49 directory. The A.S.C. has arranged for 8,000 copies of the buff-colored directory to be printed by the University press.
Staff members include: Richard Hamilton, editor; Don Wells, assistant editor; John Van Keppel, business manager; and Herb Freeman. advertising manager.
WEATHER
Kansas: Fair west, partly cloudy east with a few thunderstorms.
Record Tokyo Rose Trial Near End After 11 Weeks
The government claimed that Mrs. D'Aquino committed eight "overt acts" against the U.S. It asserted that she and other Radio Tokyo employees mapped a deliberate propaganda program designed to lower GI's morale; that she broadcast such statements as "now your troop ships have been sunk, how are you going to get home?" and tantalized sweating soldiers in the hot Pacific jungles by reminding them of ice cream sodas, cold beer and "best of all—a long, cold drink of water."
San Francisco, Sept 21—(U.P.)-Tokyo Rose may learn before the week is over whether she committed treason with her broadcasts to U. S. troops. Defense and prosecution lawyers had almost run out of witnesses, evidence and words after 11 weeks of trial and a bulky transcript which ran about 6,000 pages or more than $1 \frac{1}{2}$ million words.
It was likely that the jury of six men and six women would get a chance to vote on the guilt or innocence of slim, dark-haired Mrs. Iva Toguri D'Ainuo by Friday night.
On almost every major point, the defense and prosecution were in complete disagreement.
ID Cards Ready Monday, Sept. 26
Only Judge Michael J. Roche's instructions to the jury stood in the way of the climax to the strange story of Tokyo Rose.
The prosecution summarized its case Tuesday and the defense was scheduled to complete its summary today.
The prosecution produced 51 witnesses. Many were Japanese officials and employees of Radio Tokyo. Some were American troops who listened to the zero hour broadcasts. Other were F.B.I. agents, army intelligence officers and newspaper correspondents.
The defense produced 25 white women and 19 lengthy depositions to support his contention that Mrs. D'Aquino was only one of many women broadcasters who used the sobriquet "Tokyo Rose"; that she never broadcast any of the specific propaganda barbs named in the indictment; that she took food, medicine, tobacco and reading materials to allied prisoners at great personal risk; that she was forced to broadcast because of "mental torture" from Japanese army officers and secret police.
Student identification cards will be available beginning Monday, Sept. 26, in the lobby of Strong hall.
The defense claimed that Mrs. D'Aquino was in a secret alliance with three allied prisoners of war, who wrote the zero hour scripts to aid the allied war effort and help other prisoners.
Each student should ask for his card by the number stamped on the back of the fee card he received at registration, as the identification cards will not be distributed alphabetically but by number.
Four KU Men To Get PW Pay
Three University students and one instructor are among the former prisoners of war who are entitled to mistreatment payments which the War Claims commission is scheduled to begin paying within two or three months.
Lloyd M. Jones, instructor in economics, will receive $135 from the commission for the 135 days he was a war prisoner. A former lieutenant in the 106th Infantry division, Mr. Jones was captured on Dec. 19, 1944, during the "battle of the bulge." He was liberated on May 2, 1945, by the Fourth Armored division.
The United Press reported Tuesday that the War Claims commission had set up offices in Washington to pay $2 a day for each day that U. S. citizens—military or civilian—were imprisoned after capture on Wake island and other American-held territories. Military prisoners of war are slated to get $1 for each day they were in prison camps.
George Robb, junior year law student, was a B-24 pilot based in Italy with the 15th Air force. He and his crew were shot down over Germany on March 14, 1945. Rescued from the prison camp by the 14th Armored division on April 29, 1945, Robb will receive $46 from the War Claims commission.
Edward Chapin, journalism junior, was an engineer-gunner on a 15th Air force B-24 that was shot down over Poland on Oct. 13, 1944. Chapin was liberated by the Russians on March 20, 1945. He is entitled to approximately $159.
Kenneth Rhodes, engineering senior, was another war prisoner. A corporal with a cannon company attached to the 106th Infantry division, he was captured by Germans during the "battle of the bulge" on Dec. 16, 1944. Men of the 30th Infantry division set him free on May 3, 1945. Rhodes expects to receive $139 from the commission.
SAM Given Job Advice
Any man can start a small business, if he has the determination to live on bread and butter for at least three years and the initiative to begin anew if his attempt should fail
This was the advice that Fred Stein, president of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce, told the Society for the Advancement of Management at its semi-monthly meeting in the Union Tuesday.
"The future is all yours, fellows." Mr. Stein said. However, he qualified this statement with the story of his career in the electrical business where he rose from a 15-year-old owner of an electric products factory in Adchison. Mr Stein also became mayor of Atchison.
Bill Champion, president of S.A.M., outlined the plans for the year. The next meeting will be Tuesday, Oct. 4, when Leland W. Brown, former president of the Darby corporation, will speak on the steel industry.
Student Council Given Report On Jayhawker
Eulich said that only $2,800 of this amount was actual loss; the remainder would be paid eventually. He listed the reasons for the deficit as:
Explanation of the $4,400 loss suffered last year by the Jayhawker magazine was given at Tuesday night's All Student Council meeting by John Eulich, present business manager of the publication.
1. Engravings were sent in so late that no discount arrangement for early printing could be made.
2. Copy was late, so that the printers, all union members, charged overtime to set it.
3. Special salaries had to be paid eight persons to pass out covers, work in the Jayhawker office, and pass out copies of the last edition during the summer.
4. Postage averaging 16 to 20 cents each was necessary for 2,400 copies of the last edition.
The Council passed a motion that the publications committee make a figure by figure report on the deficit and why it occurred. "By so doing we hope to present a report not only to, the Council but also to the students to restore their faith in the Jayhawker," said Douglas Paddock, A.S.C. vice-president and publications committee chairman.
Also at the meeting, Melvin Clingman, elections committee chairman, announced the election to be held Nov. 7. Other members of the committee helping to plan the election are Barbara Glover, fine arts senior; Charles Penny, engineering senior; Arthur Francis, engineering junior; Donald Giffin, Steve Mills and Wilma Shore, all College juniors.
The four class parties are the only closed dates planned for this year by the social committee because of the strong opposition to them in previous years. The committee has called a meeting Thursday, Sept. 29 of the presidents and social chairmen of all campus organizations to explain the functions of the A.S.C. dance manager and how to register parties.
Flushing, N.Y., Sept. 21—(U.R.) Secretary of State Dean Acheson today asked Russia and her Balkan satellites to join the western powers in ending the Greek civil war.
The Council learned that the reason for the late start in selling K Books during registration was that the K Book's business manager, John Leslie did not return to the University this fall.
Marvin Martin, and John L. Eberhart were sworn in as representatives to the Council. Martin was appointed to head a committee to investigate the seating in the stadium.
Acheson Asks Russian Aid
Acheson's appeal came in a major statement of policy delivered before the United Nations general assembly, which opened a "general debate" on the world situation. Most of the 20 foreign ministers here were expected to make similar policy declarations.
Even as Acheson spoke, Russia's Balkan problems were piling up. Yugoslavia was campaigning actively among Latin-American delegations for a seat on the U.N.'s security council in opposition to the Soviet-backed nominee.