University Daily Kansan 46th Year No.83 Feb.10,1949
Thursday, Feb. 10, 1949
Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWSAPER
Union Requests Quick Passage Of Labor Bill
Washington, Feb. 10—(U.P.)-T he A.F.L. International Typographical Union today called for speedy enactment of President Truman's new labor bill to protect unions from "slow decay" under the Taft-Hartley act.
Mr. Randolph said that despite some reservations, his union favors quick passage of the administration measure so as to be rid of the Taft-Hartley law under which the union has been a frequent target for court action.
In statements prepared for delivery to the senate labor committee, I.T.U. Pres. Woodruff Randolph said Mr. Truman's measure is not perfect but certainly is an improvement over the Taft-Hartley law's "one-way injunction stree t against unions."
The union official admitted that he disliked provisions of the administration measure which list "unfair labor practices" by unions. These sections deal chiefly with jurisdictional strikes and certain types of secondary boycotts.
Other Congressional Developments:
Commodities: Chairman Elmer Thomas (D—Okla.) of the senate agriculture committee, proposed that congress pass laws to let the government deal in grain futures. He said this would stop speculators from "short" selling, or cashing in on breaks on the commodity market.
Radar: The air force handed congress a joint U.S.-Canadian plan to build a radar network at "sensitive" points around North America. Rep Carl T. Durham (D.-N.C.) chairman of a house armed services subcommittee opening hearings on the proposal, said the plan is designed to prevent another Pearl Harbor.
Reciprocal Trade; Chairman Walter F. George (D-Ga.) said his senate finance committee will open hearings next Tuesday or Wednesday on reciprocal trade legislation.
Spires: The house un-American activities committee invited the intelligence chiefs of the army and navy and Attorney General Tom C. Clark to testify at a hearing tomorrow on a prewar Red spy ring in Japan.
**Budget:** Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga.) suggests that many items on President Truman's budget be trimmed 5 per cent in an effort to eliminate a tax boost. He said if the cut were made a total of $1,500,000,000 could be saved and the government might not need additional tax revenue.
Corbin To Hold 25th Anniversary
Corbin hall, the oldest women's dormitory on the campus will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a formal tea from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday.
The governor and lieutenant governor of Kansas, the chancellor and deans of the University, the housemothers and presidents of all organized houses and special friends of the late Dr. Alberta Corbin for whom the dormitory was named have been invited.
Corbin hall was erected in 1923 on the ten-acre site of the old North College hill. The dormitory was built after a 40-year drive for appropriations, the success of which was largely due to the efforts of Miss Corbin, who was dean of women when the idea originated Although constructed to house 100 women, the dormitory's 75 rooms accommodate 197 women this year.
Buehler To Discuss Contest Tonight
E. C. Buehler, professor of speech, will speak on "How to Build an Oration" at 7:30 p.m. today in 103 Green hall.
Rules for the second Lorraine oratorical contest will also be discussed. All undergraduate students interested in entering the contest are invited.
OU Admits Two More Negroes
Norman, Okla., Feb. 10—(U.P.) Negro enrollment at the traditionally-white University of Oklahoma is expected to rise to three tomorrow following a decision by O.U.'s regents that two additional Negroes may take graduate study there.
the regents late Wednesday opened the door to Mrs. Maudierie Hancock-Wilson, Oklahoma C ity, and officially admitted Mrs. Orpherita Daniels, Oklahoma City, who enrolled Tuesday.
Roscoe Dunjee, Oklahoma City Negro editor and a leader in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said the two Negro women will start classes tomorrow.
In admitting the women, regents said the two new students will attend O.U. on the same basis of segregation "as pertains to any other colored students now enrolled at the University."
G. W. McLaurin. first Negro to be admitted to O.U., sits apart from white students in a special room.
Dr. George L. Cross, O.U. president, said the regents have instructed him to enroll the two Negro students "under such conditions of segregation as possible."
He said it is impossible, however, to provide separate room facilities for them as have been set up for McLaurin.
"The two women will be seated on the back row of the classroom and segregated as conditions allow," he said.
Honor Roll Boasts Three 3-Pointers
Three of the 48 students on the fall semester honor roll of the School of Education had a 3.0 average Dean George B. Smith announced today.
The three heading the list are Anita Bedell, senior; Peter Helfert, special student; and Vena O. Thurnau, senior. Helfert and Thurnau are among 17 veterans on the honor roll, which is the largest in the school's history.
Dick Monroe, all conference football center from Tishomingo, Okla., is 12th with an average of 2.75. Bill Sapp, Augusta, guard on the basketball team, is 24th with a 2.57 average.
The honor roll includes Miss Bedell, Helfert, Thurnau, Winona Klotz, Jewell Mishler, Rita Carl, Walter Diehl, Rosselle Bishop, Esther McKinney, Shirley Eakin, Mary McPhee, Monroe, Beverly Stember, Robert Timmons, Wayne Adams, David Johnson, Marjorie Lane, Fred Henderson, Neale D. Salm, Shaw, Floyd Thuston, Harold Ehrlich, Howard Jones, Caroline Hamma, Sapp
Robert Hallman, Lavonne Simpson, Mary Kerr, Jeane Peck, Darlene Zimmerman, Patricia Dosien, Mary Pinkney, William Rinnier, Doris Barackman, George Cole, Kenneth Gruffe, Guinevere Goerz, Charles Hogue, Joan Lippelmann, Margaret Meeks, Pauline Reade, Jeanne Rose, Harry Spencer, Sara Stryker, Lewis Bayles, Twila Wagner, Margaret Hanna, William Wilcox, Gerald Petersen.
WEATHER
Kansas—Fair today and tonight.
Partly cloudy tomorrow. A little
colder northeast today. Warmer
tomorrow. Turning colder again
northwest in afternoon. High today
45 west to 35-40 east. Low
tonight 25-30. Increasing south-
winds up to 35-40 miles an
hour this afternoon and tonight
and over west and 20-25 over east.
Bv Bibler
Little Man On Campus
"I warned him he was jumping too high for those rebounds."
AWS Will Hear MU Dean Today
Miss Thelma Mills, dean of women at the University of Missouri, will speak on "Psychology of Leadership" at an Associated Women Senate leadership workshop at 7:15 p.m. today in the Kansas room of the Student Union.
The workship sessions will continue with John J. Conard, instructor in political science, appearing Tuesday, Feb. 15, and Mrs. Natalie Calderwood, instructor in English, speaking Thursday, Feb. 17.
Smith Praised For Services
A letter from Maj. Gen. Paul J. Mueller, chief of staff of the Far East command, thanking the University for making available the services of James B. Smith, professor of law, was received by Chancellor Deane W. Malott today.
Professor Smith was on leave from the School of Law from July 1947 to July 1948, to serve in Gen Douglas MacArthur's Far East command headquarters. He was chief legal advisor to the judge advocate of the command and was also responsible for setting up legislation to implement law enforcement in Japan.
General Mueller wrote that Professor Smith's "patience, energy, resourcefullness, perservance, and devotion to duty were outstanding, and together with the soundness of his legal advice and opinions, contributed materially to orderly and successful attainment of occupation objectives."
Klan Spouts In Carolina
Denmark, S.C., Feb. 10—(J.P.) The Ku Klux Klan was pledged today to its "last drop of blood" to resist efforts to force racial equality on the south.
Dr. Samuel Green, great dragon of the Klan, made the pledge to some 250 robed members of the organization and a rain-drenched crowd here last night. The Klansmen paraded through town watched by some 2,000 persons, many of them Negroes.
The audience almost equalled the population of Denmark, but most of its members did not stay to hear Dr. Green's speech, delivered from under a shed at the railroad depot. He denounced "Northern carpet-baggers" and "Southern Scalawags" for interference in the South's race problems.
"The man who says a Negro is the equal of a white man is not as good as a Negro himself," he shouted. "You can't tell me that an ignorant African slave who came here 150 years ago has gained the culture, refinement and education that the white man has acquired in these 5,000 years."
He criticized the Rev. Maxey Collins, head of the South Carolina Federated (church) forces, as "far below the cloth he wears." The organization seeks legislation to ban demonstrations by masked organizations such as the klan.
Miss Peterson To Speak At Math Colloquium
Miss Martha Peterson, instructor of mathematics, will speak on "Metric Properties of Four Points on a Conic" at a mathematics colloquium, 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 14, in 203, Frank强 hall.
Dr. I. N. Herstein, instructor in mathematics, was the speaker at the last meeting.
Mrs. W. A. White Accepts Plaque For Gazette
The Emporia Gazette officially became a national journalistic shrine yesterday when Mrs. William Allen White accepted the 1949 Sigma Delta Chi "Historic Sites of Journalism" plaque for the Gazette.
Topека, Feb. 10—(L.P.)—The house rural health bill is due to receive favorable action by the senate today. The bill, previously passed by the house, was recommended Wednesday by the senate committee appointed to study it.
The plaque was presented to Mrs. White in front of the Gazette building by Floyd C. Shoemaker, Columbia Mo., chairman of the historic sites of journalism committee. Dean Burton W. Marvin of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information presided at the ceremony, in which Victor Bluedorn, national executive director of Sigma Deita Chi, and Gov. Frank Carlson participated.
At a luncheon preceding the award, Roy A. Roberts, president of the Kansas City Star, described the late William Allen White as one of the greatest interpretative writers of our time.
Mr. Roberts, a past honorary national president of the journalism fraternity, told the audience that "Mr. White's slant always was just plain Bill White, homey, straight-forward thinking.
"My guess is that he would have blamed it on the bone dry law which made hypocrites out of too many people," said Mr. Roberts.
"We miss him today. I'd love to have seen Bill White's editorial when Kansan went wet. I remember the last time the state voted on the issue. Mr. White said then that Kansas would continue to be dry as long as Kansans could stagger to the polls. That told the whole story in a line.
Governor Carlson, who was present to accept the plaque on behalf of the state, said the Gazette under the forceful direction of Mr. White provided an outstanding example of the great service that can be rendered by a free press.
Health Bill To Senate
It would, if passed by the senate, provide $3,862,560 for expansion of doctor training facilities at the University of Kansas hospital in Kansas City.
Senate approval is all that is needed for passage. Gov. Frank Carlson has already recommended the bill and is expected to sign it as soon as it reaches his desk.
Unemployment benefit increases are also due to receive favorable senate action in the Kansas legislature.
The bill to increase maximum unemployment payments and to lower employers' unemployment taxes was introduced in the upper chamber early this week. It has already sped through two readings and a committee hearing and was a major topic of discussion at a senate committee yesterday. If the bill is passed it will go to the house.
The senate also pushed through an emergency second reading of the seven bill streets and roads program series.
The bills would increase gasoline taxes from three cents to five cents, adopt a refund plan for non-highway use gasoline, and boost license fees by about 30 per cent. They are designed to produce an additional $10,500,000 in revenue yearly.