University Daily Kansan
O F THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Thursday, May 12, 7949 Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
Business School Plans Fete For Tomorrow
Despite the superstitious beliefs which many people hold concerning mishaps that might occur on Friday the 13th, over 800 business students and faculty members are planning a full day of activities for Business School Day tomorrow.
Classes will convene as usual at 8 a.m. but will be dismissed at 9:20 a.m. for the remainder of the day.
The schedule for the day is: 9:30 a.m., special assembly, Frank Strong auditorium; noon, luncheon for the speakers; 2 p.m.,厅长讲座 for the students, the senators, varsity diamond; and 4:30 p.m., picnic, Potter pavilion.
Polls for the Business School association election will be located in front of 214 Frank Strong hall. They will be open from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. B.S.A. cards and student identification will be necessary to vote. Candidates for officers are president, Wilbur Bruhn, Progressive, Don Hyten, Commerce; vice-president, Wallace Grundeman, Progressive, James Blocker, Commerce; secretary, Dixon Vance, Progressive, and Martha Oatman, Commerce; treasurer, Dean Richardson, Progressive, and Byron Werges, Commerce.
Richard Yaple, Business School association president, will present the portrait of Frank T. Stockton, former dean of the School of Business, to Leonard H. Axe, present deam at the morning assembly.
R. Nicholas Hoye, advertising manager of the Cory corporation, Chicago, manufacturers of glass coffeemakers, will speak on "Advertising and Sales Promotion Strategy of Cory Corporation." He will be in Frank Strong auditorium at 10 a.m.
W. R. Archer, a director of the National Association of Manufacturers, will speak at 10 a.m. in 6 Frank Strong Annex E. He will speak on "Human Factors in American Industry."
Also speaking at 10 a.m. is Ellis Orr, industrial relations supervisor for the Stanoline Pipeline company, Carrollton, Mo., on "Content and Import of Industrial Relations." He will be in 1 Frank Strong Annex E.
John B. Spence and Lewis M. Clark will speak at 11 a.m. Mr. Spence will speak in Frank Strong auditorium. He is president of the Faultless Laundry and Dry Cleaning company, Kansas City, Mo. He will give his views of small business and the place for university graduates.
Mr. Clark, sales manager, canned food division of Armour and Company, Kansas City, Kan., will speak on "Sales and Management." Mr. Clark will be in 6 Frank Strong Annex E.
Kansas — Partly cloudy, warmer today and tomorrow. High to-
day near 90.
The softball game is claimed by members of the faculty to be "retaliation day" for them. They lost the past year, Joe Small, instructor in economics, will pitch for the faculty. Their trainer is Ivan Framer, economics instructor, and the cheering section is to be led by E.B. Dade, and John Ise, professor of economics.
WEATHER
The seniors are not announcing their line-up but boast "three pitchers and a host of players." Robert McClintick, business senior, is the team manager. Ernest Quigley, director of athletics, will be head umpire.
Best Speakers To Get Awards
Awards of the department of speech and drama will be presented at the annual speech banquet at 6 p.m. Monday, May 16 in the Kansan room of the Union.
Graduate students, majors in speech and drama, forensic and debate students and University players are invited to attend.
Awards will be given to outstanding debaters for the best acting of the year; to the person of greatest value to the theater; the student who is the biggest improvement over last year in acting; and Delta Sigma Rho's award for the best woman and man speaker.
E. C. Buchler, professor of speech, will preside at the banquet. Speech awards will be presented by Kim Giffin, associate professor of speech. Allen Crafton, professor of speech and drama, will present the theater awards.
School To Get Dean's Portrait
Frank T. Stockton, former dean of the School of Business, will be honored tomorrow at the annual business day festivities when his portrait, will be formally presented to the school.
Dean Stockton was head of the business school from its beginning in 1924 until 1947 when he became head of University Extension. He is sometimes called the "originating dean" of the School of Business.
The portrait was completed in February and was painted by Mrs. Bernice Ackerman Lopez, former student at the University. It shows Dean Stockton in the formal academic gown of Johns Hopkins university from which he received his doctorate.
The portrait is a gift of the business school alumni in celebration of the school's 25th anniversary. The idea of the portrait originated with Leonard H. Axe, present dean, and members of the business faculty.
Richard Yaple, president of the Business School association, will make the presentation to Dean Axe at the 9:30 a.m. assembly.
East-West 'Friendly' As Blockade Ends
Berlin, May 12—(U.P.) The Russian blockade of Berlin ended today in a burst of East-West amity and festive celebration the like of which Germany had not seen for years.
At 12:01 a.m., the Soviets lifted the iron curtain which had isolated Berlin for 328 days, save for the Western airlift which hurdled it and thus thwarted Russia's main bid to oust the Americans, British, and French from the old capital.
The formal lifting of the blockade stemmed from an agreement between Russia and the Western powers, to be followed by a Big Four meeting to reopen the whole German question and seek an overall settlement.
The flashing of the green light at the appointed hour loosed a massive tide of traffic dammed up at the zonal border for the rush to Berlin that rivaled the stampede set off by the opening of the Cherokee strip.
The agreement sparked a long missing cordiality between the East and West. It relied much of the West on the state's blockade and other disagreements.
The first frontier crossing actually was made 15 hours before the deadline. A train carrying German railroad officials crossed from the Soviet zone to Western Germany at Kelmstedt.
The one-car combination passenger coach and Diesel locomotive arrived in Helmstedt as Allied trains, trucks, automobiles and carts lined up at the barrier for the Eastward sweep.
Meanwhile a like group of vehicles waited in Berlin for the Westward push. Berliners were calling this their V-E day. They were ready for a giant celebration. Schools were closed. Bars were wide open. It was the end of the war all over again.
The first Western train was waiting at Helmsdelt, on the British-Russian zonal border, for the run to Berlin. The American section of it left Frankfurt Wednesday morning.
UN Treaty May Curtail Press Rights, Says Newsman
The five-coach train, packed with more than 100 newsmen and photographers, was attached to a British section at Helmsted for the last lap of the inaural run.
Foreign correspondents may find their rights as observers in other countries curtailed if the United Nations adopts a treaty now on the U.N. drafting board. This was the opinion of Earl Johnson, vice-president and general news manager of the United Press, gave faculty and students of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information Wednesday at the annual Kansan board dinner
"Whether or not we have won this battle against restrictions hangs in the balance until the General Assembly approves the document. This approval should come in a day or two," he said.
Introduced by Joseph Murray, managing editor of the Lawrence Journal-World; "Mr. Johnson, said, "The Convention' on the International Transmission of News and the Rights of Correction raises many basic questions which should be answered before this country decides to ratify the treaty.
Seated at the speakers' table were Miss Helen Hostetter, professor of journalism at Kansas State college.
"Otherwise, we may find our fight for treaty guarantees of press freedom has backfired. And that we have lost more than we have gained.
The treaty would have to be ratified by a two-thirds vote of the United States senate, but adoption by other countries would affect our press through the treaty's application to our reporters abroad no matter what we do, Mr. Johnson pointed out.
who gave a short talk on the women's journalism program there; Burton W. Marvin, dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information, and Leon Flint, professor emeritus of journalism.
Much in thethet treaty is good, he said, and he suggested that a vote of thanks was forthcoming to Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, who "has vigorously and effectively presented the viewpoint of the American press in these debates."
13 Students Hurt, 'Stag Week' Ends
After 13 students were treated for injuries at Watkins Memorial hospital, "Stag Week" was officially ended at 2 a.m. today. The week's activities were ended when the sponsoring group decided that "the situation was out of hand."
William Roehl, engineering junior and chairman of the committee
Dr. Sherwood To Retire
Dr. N. P. Sherwood, chairman of the department of bacteriology, will retire from administration work about August 15. He has been chairman of the department since 1917.
Dr. Sherwood will teach medical students and graduate students for three years. He will then direct bacteriological research at the University.
During his time as chairman of the department he said that he had known four University chancellors, Snow, Strong, Lindley, and Malott. Dr. Sherwood added that he could remember when the bacteriology department consisted of two rooms in the old Snow hall which was located across the street from Bailey chemical building. "We are still using some of the microscopes that we had 40 years ago in that old building and they have certainly served us well," Dr. Sherwood said
Dr. Sherwood said he wished to thank all his colleagues for the fine support given him through the years and said he was certain that the department, under the guidance of a new director, will continue to measure up to its high University standards.
Vets Criticize Pension Bill
Washington, May 12—(U.P.)-Two veterans' organizations today criticized the new, watered-down pension bill approved by the House veterans' committee.
The measure, passed Wednesday over the protest of committee chairman John E. Rankin (D.-Miss.) merely would ease present regulations under which most 65-year-old, needy veterans of World Wars I and II can collect monthly checks of $72.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars said the bill would add so little to existing benefits that only a "a few" more veterans would receive pensions.
The American Legion admitted that the idea behind the bill was good but claimed that its "unemployability" test for eligibility might nullify all the other provisions.
The smaller American Veterans of World War II (Amvets), which opposed earlier pension bills on grounds they were unwarranted and too expensive, backed the new measure.
Experts predict it would add over eight and one-half billion dollars during the next 50 years to the thirty-five billions which pensions already provided for are expected to cost. The 50-year cost of other measures the committee had studied ran as high as 125 billions.
Rankin announced that his committee will begin work Tuesday, May 17, on another bill to increase all veterans' pension and compensation checks by 25 per cent.
Future Student Born Tuesday
Mr. and Mrs. William E. Bergman became parents of a girl Tuesday. Bergman is a senior in education.
which planned the three-day program, said: "The committee voluntarily has called the week off. The situation created by men raiding women's organized houses is too big for us to handle."
Thirteen injuries resulting from "Stag Week" activities were reported by hospital authorities today. Eight of the injured students were treated and released. Five remain in the hospital.
The demonstration Wednesday started when two fraternities began a water fight with members of Kappa Alpha Theta, social sorority. The crowd of men grew in size to a point that Mrs. Christine Aford, the housemother, fearing violence, asked the men to leave.
The crowd then races to the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house where men entered the house. No damage was done, Mrs. Andrew McKay, the housemester said, but when policemen arrived to break up a crime that happened driveway with brush and picked the police car up off the ground and doused the two officers with water.
The group, composed of students went systematically from one sorority house to another, squirting water on the women, and attempting to break into each house.
Members of the group, damaged sorority house furniture, walls and rugs with water, and at the Alpha Delta Pi house, two windows were broken and the plane was soaked.
Mrs. O, L. Horner, ADPI house-mother, said: "We will have a piano inner out today to deter him whether or not the piano is ruined."
At the Chi Omega house, Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of men, interrupted the mob's activities. Dean Woodruff said that in the crossfire of the water fight he became slightly wet in attempting to disperse the crowd.
At the Delta Delta Delta house,
Mrs. C. P. Aul, housemother was hit in the face with water from a hose when she attempted to keep the men out of the house.
Margaret Habein, dean of women, said: "It is most unfortunate that the destruction occurred. Destruction and violence do not belong in a state university. The action showed instability and immaturity."
Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of men, said: "It was a short week." He added that the reports of the affair were "so exaggerated and garbled that they were funny." Dean Woodruff went to each so-called victim with an amount of damage caused. He said with the exception of the Alpha Delta Pi house, he found, no damage of significance.
The mob, which was estimated to contain from 200 to 500 persons broke up about 8 p.m. After that men drove cars through the campus hissing at women who were walking down Jawhawk drive. Small groups of men were active on the campus as late as 3 a.m. today.
Students reported by the hospital as receiving treatment for injuries received when they were thrown into Potter lake were:
William Cavnaugh, lacerations of nose. He will be released to tomorrow.
Kenneth Medearis, lacerations of the foot.
Clifford Stephenson, head lacerations.
Injuries resulting from a car ac-ident were:
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