University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Feb. 17, 1949
Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
Red Satellites Begin To Fight Commie Regime
By JACK MEEHAN
United Press Staff Correspondent Frankfurt, Germany, Feb. 17- Growing underground resistance forces against Communism are stirring in the Soviet Union's own Ukraine and in each of Russia's satellites behind the iron curtain.
Altogether some 200,000 to 400,000 armed men already are said to be striking against their Communist masters with the same sabotage and terror tactics that ultimately helped topple Adolf Hitler's Nazi empire.
Country by country, here is the story of the underground struggle against Communism in Russia's own backyard, as pieced together from documented reports:
Ukraine — The well-trained Ukrainian partisan army, 50,000 to 200,000 strong, has been fighting regular Russian and Polish troops since May, 1944. It seeks to liberate the Ukraine from Soviet and Polish domination and already has chosen a president, cabinet ministers and parliament for an independent government.
The partisan army has machine-guns, some light artillery and even a few tanks in addition to small arms. Most were captured or stolen from the Soviet and Polish armies. The army's usual tactics are to ambush Russian and Polish troops on patrols and marches and to blow up bridges as supply trains pass over them.
Yugoslavia - At least seven anti-Commist group are active inside Yugoslavia in addition to pro-Cominform Communists who seek the overthrow of Marshal Tito's "deviationist" government.
One actively fighting anti-Comunist group. The Crusaders, has proved so effective that the government has organized special troop detachments to track them down with bloodhounds.
Poland—Upwards of 100,000 wanted men stalk the Polish forests waiting for a time when their isolated clashes with the Polish Communist forces flare into open revolt. They are members of the A. K., the outlawed Polish home army, pledged to the overthrow of the Communist government in Poland.
Czechoslovakia—Seven known anti-Communist groups have begun underground activity against Czechoslovakia's new Communist government. The largest is the freedom movement with a membership of 4,500 organized into small groups sworn to carry out sabotage. Supporting it is the revived wartime partisan group known as the "Black Lion."
Romania—Twenty groups, bearing such exotic names as "Black Cloak," "White Eagle" and "Waves of the Danube" are active. The leader of the "Black Cloak," Admiral Horia Maceleraui, former commander of the Romanian Black sea fleet, escaped recently after being sentenced to forced labor as a resistance leader.
Bulgaria—Some 3,000 followers of Nikola Petkov, executed by the Communist regime, attacked government forces from the Rhodops and Starapalina mountains last summer with a fury that frightened the government.
KCU Professor To Discuss 'Freudian Personality'
Prof. Lorenz Mishach, of the University of Kansas City, will be guest speaker at the psychology department colloquium at 4:40 p.m. Monday. Feb. 21 in 103 Haworth.
Professor Misbach's topic will be "The Freudian Theory of Personality Structure."
Fall Term Grades Ready Next Week
Fall semester grades will be made available to students next week, James K. Hitt, registrar, said today.
Mr. Hift asked that students call at the registrar's office according to the following schedule: last names beginning with letters A to G, Monday, Feb. 21; H to M, Tuesday, Feb. 22; N to S, Wednesday, Feb. 23; T to Z, Thursday, Feb. 24.
Those who are unable to call at their appointed time may get their grades Friday or Saturday.
Templin Fund Reaches $95
The Templin hall fire fund, sponsored by the University Daily Kansas, now totals $95. Recent contributors include eight University men who have given up cigarette money, totaling $2, to help the fund.
A $15 contribution has come from Battenfeld hall and a $1 contribution has been received from Mrs. James M. Scott, Mankato, Kan. Three anonymous persons have contributed $5 to the fund.
Half the Templin hall occupants will be able to move back in the fire damaged building by next week end, said Mrs. Vivian Christian, Templin housemother. The other half will probably live elsewhere the rest of the semester.
Meals are now being served in the house to the entire 50 girls who regularly eat there. This includes 26 women from Carruth hall.
U.H.S. Class Studies Jury
Facial expressions of a district court jury were studied Wednesday by the University High school American government class.
Miss Ruth Litchen, instructor in education, told the senior class of 20 students in government to observe the changing expressions of the lawyers, jury, and the defendant. "This is a practical class in government and a jury trial is a practical case," said Miss Litchen.
Three practice teachers accompanied the class. They were Don Blakeslee, College senior; Keith Bradley and Larry McDonnell, education seniors.
Paul Weaver Will Open Religious Week
Dr. Paul Weaver, dean of religious life at Stephens college, will be the featured speaker at a convocation at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in Hoch auditorium. This convolution marks the beginning of Religious Emphasis week on the campus.
Dr. Weaver has lectured in more than 70 colleges and universities in the past 15 years. Dr. Weaver also has toured many European countries.
The theme chosen for Religious Emphasis week is "Dynamics for Living." Regular events on each day of the week will include worship services in Danforth chapel at 9:30 a.m., faculty luncheons with guest speakers in the English room of the Student Union, seminars at 4 p.m. daily, "skeptics hours" at organized houses, and fire-side chats at organized houses in the evenings. Dr. Weaver and seven other guest speakers will also be available for classroom discussions and private interviews with students each day
Tuesday, Feb. 22, there will be denominational banquets and meetings at the various churches. Another union meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25. Both auditorium and kitchen will be broadcast discussion. It will be broadcast over KFKU at 9:30 p.m. the same day.
The central headquarters for Religious Emphasis week will be a desk in the lounge of the Union. There will be a place at this desk for students to sign who wish to have interviews with the guest speakers.
Other speakers for the week are Rabbi Samuel Mayerberg, Kansas City, Mo.; Harold J. Kuebler, executive director of the student Y.M.C.A., Topeka; Dr. Park R. Johnson, minister of the Second Presbyterian church in Kansas City, Kan; the Very Rev F. W. Lithman, dean of the Cathedral, Salina; Father Alfred C. Longly, Staff Command school, Fort Leavenworth; and Hoover Rupert, director of the youth movement in the Methodist church, Nashville, Tenn.
Two Students Blaze Trail Of Snow To Rescue Ranchers
WEATHER
By KEITH LESLIE
Kansas—Fair and warmer today High near 50. Low tonight near 40
Striking out across the prairie in a bulldozer, owned by Richardson, was "rather haphazard" because of the complete lack of landmarks, Dillon remarked. In the entire time they were in the region, they did not "open up a single graded road. We just opened trails."
The days of the covered wagon and the buffalo may be past, but there is still opportunity for adventure in the west, explain Chester Dillon, business senior, and Kenneth Richardson, business sophomore.
"We rescued two families who had not been off of their ranch since before Christmas," he said. "One rancher's wife said that if it hadn't been for the canning she did last fall, they could never have pulled through."
Richardson is still in Nebraska and he may go to South Dakota or Wyoming, Dillon said.
Dillon returned Monday from Hyannas, Neb., after helping rancher and their cattle in the snow-bound regions of the midwest.
Smiling at their methods of direction, he said, "When we'd get one ranch opened up, they'd say, 'Go about two valleys north and about two miles west.' We never
knew just how far it would be, and it was colder than blazes on that "dozer."
They found no cases of real suffering from lack of food or fuel, since emergency cases had been evacuated by the army.
After making certain that the ranchers and their families were safe, they opened the haystacks so that the cattle could be fed. Chester estimated the number of cattle killed from starvation and exposure at "about two to three per cent," but added that there would be a terrific loss in market value because of frozen feet. tails and ears.
When asked how he liked the work, he replied that he was glad to be "clean, warm, and civilized again."
Crusading Editor To Speak Monday
Fighting against racial, religious and economic intolerance is no new job for Hodding Carter, Pulitzer prize-winning editor and publisher of the Greenville (Miss.) Delta-Democrat Times. His talk at the University Monday, Feb. 21, will be before the first convocation sponsored by the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information.
'Bury The Dead Tickets On Sale
Tickets for "Bury the Dead" to be presented Feb. 22-25 by the University Players are available upon presentation of activity books in the ticket office in the basement of Green hall today. Single admission for non-students is $1.
The cast of Irwin Shaw's play about peace and war had its first full rehearsal of all 26 scenes Monday night in Fraser theater.
Members of the cast are Dan E. Palmquist, Marjorie Courtney, M. Mary K. Booth, Patricia Mather, D. Jenneen Hardy, graduate students; Arnold Davidson, Charles J. Brown, James W. Townsend, Phyllis Mowery, Bill P. Ogg, R. Haney Scott, Tom P. Rea, College seniors.
Ervin Grant, first year law; Milton Commens, education senior; James E. Chrisman, engineering senior; J. L. Haws, B. Gene Courtney, Loren E. Orr, Don H. Harling, College juniors; Jim C. Kiefner, fine arts junior; Bernice Brady, education junior; Roy Crouch, Dolores Wills, College sophomores; Harold Hales, Jane Schmidt, College freshmen; Colin Campbell, Craig Hampton, fine arts freshmen.
Issues Vague Says Roberts
Orville Roberts, instructor in speech, reported to the General Semantics club Wednesday on his study of the campaign speeches of presidential candidates of the years 1932 through 1944.
Mr. Roberts said that in the speeches studied, only 1 per cent of the candidates took a definite stand on the more vital issues.
Only in rare instances in a campaign is the listener able to tell whether either candidate is aware of the problem at hand or is prepared to do anything about that problem.
Mr. Roberts bases his study on a statistical evaluation of the content of an address rather than on an emotional criticism of the speech.
The club discussed plans for the establishment of a local chapter of the International Society for General Semantics.
Reese Scheduled To Be Released
Dr. J. Allen Reese, dean of the School of Pharmacy, is scheduled to be released from Lawrence Memorial hospital this afternoon.
Dr. Reese was admitted to the hospital Feb. 12, suffering from an intestinal ulcer. His condition is reported to be much improved.
Fellowship To Give Post-Valentine's Party
The K.U. Disciple fellowship, student organization of the Christian church, will give a "Would you have been my Valentine?" party at 7:30 p.m. Friday. The party will be held in Myers hall and is open to all Fellowship members and their friends.
- The journalism students' convocation will be at 11 a.m. in Fraser theater. All interested students are invited. He will also speak to news writing and advertising classes at 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. in 102 Journalism building.
Mr. Carter's first newspaper was a small daily in his home town of Hammond, La. He opposed Huey Long. An edict from Lonv put Mr. Carter's Courier out of business. However, his district was the only district in the state that did not send a Long henchman to Congress.
In 1936, Mr. Carter moved to Greenville, Miss., where he began his determined anti-Bilbo, anti-Rankin campaign.
He said: "I became obsessed with the sign on the grass saying: "Democracy, for Whites Only, All Others Keep Off!" I wrote a lot on this general subject in criticism of such men as Mississippi's Bilbo and Rankin. It was these editors that gave me the Pulitzer prize. So, I found out that hell raising can pay off."
"Hell raising" in the form of editorials denouncing intolerance, particularly one titled "Go for Broke" won Mr. Carter a Pulitzer prize in 1946. The editorial was a plea for fairness to returning Japanese-American soldiers who had distinguished themselves in World War II. "Go for Broke" Hawaiian-Japanese slang for shooting the works in a dice game, advises "shooting the works" in the fight for tolerance.
Mr. Carter won a Nieman fellowship after printing a picture of Jesse Owens, Negro Olympic athlete, in his paper. In doing this, he disregarded the Jim Crow taboo attempting to prohibit printing Negro pictures or capitalizing the letter "N" in Negro.
When objections began pouring in, he wrote an editorial entitled "Jesse Owen's Picture." He pointed out the contradictions in a society which does not recognize Negro accomplishments. Commented Mr. Carter, "We got more cancellations, but the roof didn't fall in."
Despite the South's political and economic backwardness, he nevertheless believes that the liberal minority is growing both in numbers and willingness to act.
Outside help is useful, Mr. Carter maintains. He believes the North might try an approach in terms of amelioration rather than immediate solution.
Francis Appoints Activities Chairmen
Evans J. Francis, president of Student Union activities, announced Wednesday the appointment of the following committee chairmen:
Marilyn Brown, College sophomore, social; Bryce Ehkmke, education junior, public liaison; Anne Gage, College junior, sports and organizations; and Myron Husband, College sophomore, K-Union.
New Engineering Society To Hold First Meeting
The first meeting of the newly organized student chapter of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 21 in the Kansas room of the Union.
Mr. H. A. Atwater, chief engineer of the Combustion Equipment company, Kansas City, Mo., will discuss "Interesting Features of Natural Gas Burning." All interested persons are invited to attend.