UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1949
Thieves Take Painting From Campus Chapel
According to building and grounds officials the painting was in the chapel at 11:30 p.m. Monday when the lights were dimmed for the night. The chapel is open 24 hours a day.
An attack, not only on religion, but more specifically against Religious Emphasis week, by some group opposed to religion undoubtedly led to the stealing of a painting of Jesus from Danforth chapel sometime between 11:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday afternoon, said Dr. John Patton, professor of religion.
Dr. Harold G. Barr, dean of the School of Religion, said, "I am terribly disturbed that anyone would desecrate a chapel. I can't conceive how anyone would harm such a hallowed place."
Karl Klooz, bursar, said insurance detectives are working on the case.
No estimate of the picture's value was available. It is an expensive copy, however. The frame is hand carved and the painting is 5 feet high and 4 feet wide.
The painting was a large copy of "Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane" by Hoffman which hung in the narthex of Dantorf chapel.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Point-exeter of St. Louis, Mo., gave the painting to the University when the chapel was dedicated April 2, 1947.
Raymond C. Nichols, executive secretary of the University said, "We can see no reason why anyone would want to take the picture, but we will make every effort to recover it."
Officers covering the case are George White and Ralph Castel of the Lawrence police department.
New Staff Named To The Sour Owl
William von Maurer, journalism senior, will be editor of the Sour Owl, campus humor magazine, James L. Robinson, president of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity which sponsors the publication, announced the new staff today.
Von Mauer said at a staff meeting that two issues will be published this spring, the next to appear Monday, March 14.
Other staff members are: assistant editor, Richard B. Pryce, junior makeup editors, Cooper Rollow, senior, and John Staffer, senior; cartoon editor, Leonard Snyder, senior; promotion, Charles R. Roter, junior; exchange, James S. Morris, junior; photography, Wallace Abbey, senior; circulation, Richard Barton, junior; humor editor, Larry Funk, senior; assistant humor editors, Douglas Jennings, junior, and Robert Hildgardner, senior; and business manager, Don Tennant, senior. All are journalism students. Charles G. Pearson, instructor in journalism, is advisor.
Dateable Male Gets Queen For A Date
Patricia Ames, College sophomore, and Thomas Hanna, College junior, will spend Saturday in Kansas City, Mo. because they were selected "sweetheart queen" and "most dateable male" at the Sweetheart Swing dance Feb. 12.
They will attend a matinee at the Music hall, have dinner at Eddie's, and dance at the Plamor. Transportation to and from Kansas City will be provided by the Union.
Passage Seen For Liquor Bill
The stage was set yesterday for the legislative battle royal by Rep. Grover L. Dunn (R.-Arkansas City) when he explained amendments, proposed by his state affairs committee in the senate version, and recommended passage.
Topeka. Feb. 17 — (U.P.) Legislative leaders today predicted passage of their private enterprise liquor control bill as a battle raged on the floor of the Kansas house of representatives between pro-administrative forces and a bloc which favored state monopoly.
Final house vote on the measure, already passed by the senate, was expected to be close, but observers believed the administration had from 10 to a dozen votes to spare.
Blythe, Barrel-chested "bull of the woods" of the house, was co-author of the opposition bill. Most of his followers were from the rural-dry areas of Western Kansas. They proposed state owned liquor stores.
Monopolists, led by Rep. Lawrence Blythe, White City, were expected to try to amend all of the 93-page administration - suppelled measure which followed the enacting clause.
Passage of the liquor control bill in the house with recommended changes, will send it back to the senate where the house amendments will be studied. Final approval and the signature of Gov. Frank Carlson will end an intoxicant drought in the "Wheat State" that had survived, in the face of out-state derision and in-state attack, more than 68 years.
Proposed house amendments would briefly, prohibit public drinking, create a 2 per cent "enforcement tax" for city and county revenue and make any town that voted "dry" last November remain that way until changed by local balloting.
The senate version of the bill proposed a $1 per gallon tax on liquor, that would add an estimated $2.000,000 annually to the state general fund. That provision was expected to pass the house intact.
Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Bishop Announce Birth Of Girl
Mr. and Mrs. Edward K. Bishop 2209 Rhode Island street, announce the birth of a daughter, Jananne Wednesday at Lawrence Memorial hospital.
Mr. Bishop is bindery foreman of the University press and an engineering sophomore. Mrs. Bishop was graduated from the University in 1940. They have two sons, Danny, 4, and Ronny, 2.
More than 100 new books and classical and semi-classical records have been received in the Browsing room of the Union. These new additions increase the record collection to approximately 1,500 while there are more than 200 books for leisure-time enjoyment. The room is open from noon until 7 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Union Browsing Room Offers Pleasure To Student Book-Worms; Record-Lovers
Some of the new books are: Robert E. Sherwool; "Roosevelt and Hopkins"; Winston S. Churchill; "The Gathering Storm"; H. L. Mencken. "The American Language"; and Harry C. Butcher, "My Three Years With Eisenhower."
"Symphony No. 5" (Stravinsky), and,"London Symphony" (Vaughan Williams).
A special program will be presented Friday from noon until 1 p.m. The program includes: "Prometheus Overture" (Beethoven), "Italian Symphony" (Mendelssohn), "Elsa's Dream" from "Lohengrin" (Wagner), "Les Ingenues" and "Clair de Lune" (Debussy), and "Rosenkavaler Waltzes" (Strauss).
The new records are: "Liebes-
beder Waltzes" (Brahms), "Quar-
te No. 7 in F" (Beethoven), "Ro-
mountic Symphony" (Hanson), "Ros-
nakavalier Waltzes" (R. Strauss),
"Petruckha Suite" (Stravinsky).
Foremen Want Union Rights
Washington, Feb. 17—(U.P.)The Foremen's Association of America asked congress today to give foremen the same bargaining rights as rank and file workers.
Carl Brown, representing the association, said many employers now impose "the same unsatisfactory conditions of employment" on foremen as used to be imposed on rank and file workers before collective bargaining rights were protected by the Wagner act of 1935.
The labor committee already has heard a management representative, William T. Gossett, vice-president of the Ford Motor co., ask that foremen be excluded from guaranteed bargaining rights.
The Taft-Hartley law excluded supervisors from that protection.
The new administration bill, as it now stands, would restore foremen's unions to their status under the Wagner act.
Brown, in a statement prepared for the senate labor committee, asked that any new labor bill require employers to recognize foremen's unions representing a majority of supervisory workers.
He said at present the foreman "has reason to feel" he will become the victim "in the ceaseless struggle between ownership and wage labor."
Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity, selected eight of its members Wednesday to attend a dinner meeting sponsored by the Kansas City Press club at the Hotel Muehllebach in Kansas City Tuesday. Feb. 22.
Sigma Delta Chi Picks Delegates
Funk was elected vice-president He will be in charge of all professional meetings.
The delegates, all journalism seniors, are: Larry Funk, Fred Brooks, Cooper Rollow, John Riley, Jim Robinson, Jim Scott, Marvin Rowlands, and Bill von Maurer.
Camera Club Meets Today
Discussion of the proposed constitution will be the main topic of business at the Camera Club meeting today, Leonard Kasky, president. said. The club will meet at 8 p.m. in the Chamber of Commerce room, WREN building.
Business Seniors Can Order Hats
Business seniors can start placing orders for the blue-and-gold-banded straw hats tomorrow through Wednesday, Feb. 23, Richard Yaple, president of the Business School association, said today.
Orders will be taken from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the rotunda in Frank Strong hall. Yaple asked students to know their hat size when placing orders.
"Problems Before the 81st Congress" is the main subject in the pamphlet. The problems that congress is now facing are labor legislation, inflation, the farm program, expansion of social security, public works, civil rights, foreign affairs, and the reorganization of the executive branch.
20,000 Kansans To Get Pamphlet
Twenty thousand Kansans will receive copies of "Your Government," a publication of the bureau of government research which was released this week.
The article was written by J. W. Drury, assistant professor of political science and a research associate of the bureau of government research. The pamphlet is used by 600 high schools in Kansas as supplementary material in civics and government classes. It is also sent to about 500 newspapers and 3,700 public officials and citizens interested in government.
The March issue of "Your Government" will contain articles on the commission of revenue and taxation and on the secretary of state.
Fritz Meyn Rites Set For Saturday
Funeral services for Frederick O. "Fritz" Meyn will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the First Presbyterian church, 901 Vermont street. Services will be conducted by the Rev. Theodore Aszman and Dr. R.A. Schwegler, professor emeritus from the School of Education. Names of the pall bearers have as yet not been announced.
Burial will be at Oak Hill cemetery.
Little Man On Campus
Royall Repeats, U.S. Will Not Leave Japan
"—And the traveling salesman said, 'I'm the dumb so-and-so who slept in the barn.'"
Washington, Feb. 17—(U.P.)—Army Secretary Kenneth C. Royall stood pat today on his denial of ever saying that U.S. troops might be pulled out of Japan in case of war with Russia.
He admitted that he was the "high American official" who held an off-the-record meeting with American news correspondents in Tokyo on Feb. 5.
But he emphatically denied that anything he said in Tokyo could be interpreted justifiably as indicating that U.S. troops might withdraw.
Some correspondents attending the Tokyo meeting with Royall later wrote dispatches quoting a "high American official" as saying that Japan might be abandoned in event of war.
At a news conference here late yesterday on his 18-day inspection of Japan and various Pacific military bases, Mr. Royall said that such dispatches were "a quite surprise." He said he made no statement at the Tokyo off-the-record conference or elsewhere about U.S. troops possibly leaving Japan.
"On the contrary," Mr. Royall said, "I stated specifically that we did not plan to make any changes in our forces and I said we were ready to meet all comers in Japan."
On the other hand, Peter Kalscher, staff correspondent for the United Press, explained in a lengthy release that stories of the 12 newsmen attending the disputed press conference with Mr. Royall were true.
He quoted Mr. Royall as saying, "My department is reconsidering the military value of Japan. I have grave doubts that Japan has any value in event of war with Russia. I think it might be better to pull out before the war started but no decision has yet been made and any announcement of such a move would be premature."
Mr. Kalischer went into further details to prove that the correspondents were factually correct in their release of the story that American forces might withdraw from Japan.
Envoy To Report On Cardinal's Trial
The United Press reported this morning that U. S. Minister to Hungary Selden Chapin left Budapest this morning for the United States to report on the trial and other developments which led to Hungary's request for his recall.
Repercussions were still being heard today from the trial of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty in Hungary
Archduke Otto also felt that the United States is losing the cold war with Russia and that the menace of communism is even greater this year, the press association report said.
The United Press quoted him as saying that the defense was selected from "a roost" of communist lawyers of long standing.
In Kohler, Wisc., Archduke Otto, pretender to the Austrian throne voiced pessimism on the outlook for peace, and said that the Mindszenty trial was "the result of an absolute directive from Russia."
Library Entrance To Be Enlarged
The project cannot be started until the west wing is sufficiently completed to be used as an entrance, which will be about 60 days.
The main entrance to Watson library will be widened by the addition of two doors, C. M. Baker, director of libraries, said today.
The entrance will be widened to three doors by tearing away the stone seats on either side of the main door and cutting through the wall on either side of the present door.