University Daily Kansan STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Border Fight Flares Anew In Palestine
UP. Foreign News Roundup
U. P. Foreign News Roundup Israeli troops were reported on the march in southern Palestine today within 35 miles of the Trans-Jordan port of Aqaba, defended by a British garrison.
There still was no confirmation of a Trans-Jordan Defense ministry announcement Wednesday night that units of Trans-Jordan's Arab legion had clashed with the Israeli troops at a point about 32 miles northwest of Aqaba.
British military sources in Cairo said the bulk of an Israeli force, about 1,000 strong, had reached Burj E Muleila, 35 miles northwest of Aqaba. Advance patrols may have penetrated farther south, they said.
Israel officials at Tel Aviv denied there had been a clash. But they did not deny Trans-Jordan's claims that two Israeli columns have started to move through the southern Negev at the southern tip of Palestine toward Anaba.
Rather, the British said, the Israeli advance appeared aimed at controlling the highway from the Trans-Jordan border into the Negev and occupying the strategic Negev triangle bordered by Trans-Jordan on the east and Egypt on the west. Aqaba lies at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba just inside the Trans-Jordan border opposite the tip of the Negev triangle.
The British said they did not believe the Israelis had crossed the Palestine border into Trans-Jordan, nor that an attack on Aqaba is intended.
Berlin; Authoritative sources said the U.S. military government has completed a letter rejecting Soviet demands that a restitution mission be permitted to enter the U.S. zone of Germany to hunt Soviet property stolen by the Nazis. The letter was expected to be signed later today by Gen. Lucius D. Clay, U.S. military governor.
On the serious side, the Sour Owl will continue its service to students with an article on "How to Get a Job." The article will be written by the head of one of the larger Kansas City employment agencies.
Other Foreign News:
The feature article will be the story of a K.U. coed and her relations to the coming of repeal to the campus. In addition, the humor magazine will be based on an imaginary issue of Time magazine with all of the various departments of the national periodical being satired.
There will also be cartoons and jokes in this issue, von Maurer
London: The British cabinet was reported to have approved in principle the draft of the proposed North Atlantic Security pact. No details were available.
Repeal on the campus and a "take-off" on Time magazine will feature an improved Sour Owl when it appears on the campus Monday, March 14. William von Maurer, editor, said today.
In the "book" section will be a "review" of Dr. John Ise's "Economics". Other sections to be parodied include sports, education, movie reviews, press, music, and art.
'Sour Owl' Out Monday
"The coming issue will be more subtle than the average campus humor magazine but it certainly won't be serious," he explained.
AWS Petitions Due Today
Petitions for candidacy for the Associated Women Students senate must be filled with the dean of women or a house representative not later than today, Grace Gwinner, elections chairman, announced today.
An orientation period for candidates will be held Tuesday, March 15, at which time Betty van der Smissen, president, will discuss A.W.S. A quiz covering this material and the leadership workshop meetings will also be given.
KU Research Grows Rapidly
Research activities at the University have increased rapidly during the past five years. When the Research foundation was established in 1943, there were five projects amounting to $25,000 with eight persons working full or part time. Today there are 56 projects amounting to $450,000 with 160 workers.
Of the 56 projects now in progress, 12 are sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, 11 by the Kansas Industrial Development commission, 9 by direct legislative grant, 9 by the U.S. Public Health service, 3 by the Research corporation of New York City, and 1 each by the U.S. army quartermaster corps, the atomic energy commission, the American Cancer society, the Kansas division of the Cancer society, and the National Foundation of Lnfantile Paralysis.
Marilyn Sweet and Joan Williams College seniors, were elected Wednesday to the Y.W.C.A. elections committee, and Edith Malott, College junior, was chosen member-at-large of the advisory board.
A recent book, "Industrial Development in Kansas," published by the Bureau of Business research, is the first extensive study made of the economic potentialities of the state, and can serve as a guide to future development.
Six others are sponsored by private interests. In addition to the sponsored projects, there are a number of unsponsored research activities.
Approximately 50 members saw "Respectfully Submitted," a skit prepared by Miss. Sweet and members of the Y.Knot, the W.Y.C.A. newspaper. Based on the secretary's minutes, the skit showed Y. W meetings from 1900, 1917, and 1936
Three Are Elected To YWCA Jobs
One of the Research foundation's basic objectives is to be able to furnish industry, both active and prospective, with the latest information from an economic and technical viewpoint.
Two of the Kansas Industrial Development commission projects is the utilization of straw for pulp and paper, and the results of chemical activities on natural gas.
Those appearing in the program were Barbara Drohan, College freshman; Barbara Ramsey, College junior; Miss Sweet; and Emily Stewart. College sophomore.
The fields of these sponsored projects include aeronautical engineering, anatomy, bacteriology, biochemistry, botany, chemical engineering, chemistry, economics and business, entomology, geology, mathematics, medicine, physics, physiology, psychology, and zoology.
The next joint Y.W.-Y.M. all membership meeting will be held Wednesday, April 20. Films on the
Police Capture Train Bandits In Washington
Washington, March 10 — (U.P.) Two boot-suited train robbers who held up a Baltimore and Ohio streamliner in wild-west style Wednesday night were captured here today after a gun battle in which one of them was critically wounded.
Washington police said they recovered only $289 of the $1,500 which the men took at gunpoint from passengers on the streamliner near Martinsburg. W. Va.
They identified the gunmen as Luman Ramsdell, 23, and George Llewellyn Ashton, 21, both of Youngstown, Ohio.
Ramsdell was shot and critically wounded by police when he drew a .38 caliber pistol as the arresting officers closed in on him and his companion in a Pennsylvania avenue pawnshop only five blocks from the White House. He was not expected to live.
Police said the pair readily confessed the daring train robbery, which took place on the B. and O.s. of the 81 miles west of Washington.
When the two gunmen left the bus at Leesburg, the driver notified the sheriff there.
The desperadoes were tracked down through a series of tips, the most important of which was supplied by an unidentified driver for the Emory Bus lines.
Dance Postponed Until May 10
The name of Ramsdell was found in a wallet which had been dropped in a West Virginia night club to which the two men fled after holding up the passenger train.
They were captured, and one was shot, in a pawn shop within five blocks of the White House.
The youthful gunmen slipped through roadblocks thrown around West Virginia roads during the night and early this morning and came to Washington on a Greyhound bus.
The senior dance scheduled for March 12 has been postponed, said Marvin B. Small, president of the senior class.
Small said that there is a donkey baseball game, a barbeque at Potter lake, and a two-hour dance on Lake Erie. The 10 which will replace the dance.
Seniors will be permitted to miss one half day of classes to attend these activities in May.
Twelve students have been appointed by Robert K. Thayer, and Nancy J. Lindsey, co-chairmen of the student Red Cross Drive to assist in collecting contributions for the drive from students living in organized houses.
These students will leave a container for contributions at each organized house on the campus. In addition there will be containers in the library and Frank Strong hall. The quota for the University is $1,350.
They are: James B. Arnold, education senior; Alvin L. Benham, engineering freshman; Patsy E. Davis, fine arts junior; Robert A. Hanson, engineering freshman. Others all in the College are: Vernal H. Scheuerman, junior; Dale S. Helmers and Emily Stewart, sophomores; and Dean M. Groger, Sue Ihinger, Jane M. Rawlings, and Virginia L. Thompson, freshmen.
Students Help Red Cross Drive
Henry Shenk, chairman of the physical education department and head of the drive for the University, has received $560 in contributions from faculty members.
WEATHER
"If every student would contribute something, even as little as a dime, we would go over our quota," Mr Shenk said.
Kansas—Fair today,becoming warmer this afternoon;high 35 to 40. Low tonight 25 to 30.
Little Man On Campus
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Rhoten Smith Wins $150 Prize For War Novel
Rhoten Smith, instructor in political science, was announced today as winner of the $150 first prize in the 1948 William Allen White creative writing contest. The competition is sponsored by the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information in cooperation with G.P. Putnam's Sons, publishers.
Mr. Smith's prize-winning work was a novel, "The Dust That Grips," written while he was studying for his Master of Arts degree, which he received last year, Burton W. Marvin, dean of the School of Journalism announced. The story told of a flight over Germany by an eighth air force bomber during the war. It considered the dilemma the men aboard faced regarding their attitude toward war.
The winner of the second prize, $100, was Miss Barbara Duree, assistant instructor in English, whose entry was a volume of verse entitled "The Last Year And Other A long volume included a长 narrative poem on several of the year, "The Last Year," and a number of short lyries.
The third prize of $50 went to R. W. Taylor who was a graduate student in English last year when he completed his novel, "No Land Is Flat." Mr. Taylor is now living in Lawrence and working on another novel.
The William Allen White literary competition is open to any student, undergraduate or graduate, enrolled for residence work in the University Junior members of the faculty (assistants, assistant instructor, and instructors) who are also graduate students are eligible.
The 1948 prizes were awarded under the terms of alternative provisions. These state that if no manuscript is judged to be of sufficient distinction of merit the $2,500 award Putnam's will give prizes of $150, $100 and $50 for the three best manuscripts submitted.
Under the terms of the contest any person declared the winner of the William Allen White award in creative writing will receive from G. P. Putnam's Sons the sum of $2,500. Of this sum, $1,000 is to be an outright gift, and $1,500 is to be an advance against royalties on the work when it is published. Putnam's is to have the first right to negotiate for publication of any manuscript submitted.
Members of the 1943 selection committee were Chancellor Deane W. Malot; Frederic Babcock of The Chicago Triube, and Kenneth L. Rawson, vice president of G. P. Putnam's Sons and head of the publishing company's editorial department. Information on the 1949 contest will be issued within a few days, Dean Marvin said.
The award may be divided if two contestants submit work of equal merit.
'Macbeth' On Stage In Fraser April 5
Shakespeare's "Macbeth" will be presented Tuesday, April 5, in Fraser theater by Margaret Webster's Shakespearean touring company, Allan Crafton, professor of speech, said today.
"The company is playing in 'Hamlet' and 'Macbeth' and has been receiving flattering press notices for the brilliance of their presentations," said Professor Crafton. "This will be the first professional touring theatrical company to appear in Law-