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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, Jan. 5, 1949
Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Palestine War Blazes Anew In Negev Area
By UNITED PRESS
The biggest battle of the Palestine war was reported raging in the Negev desert area of southern Palestine today.
Egyptian reports said Israeli forces were making a supreme effort to drive the Egyptians out of Palestine before the security council meets at Lake Success to consider the Palestine situation.
The Jews were said to be sending tanks, guns, planes and men against Rafa, frontier town just across from Egypt, and the Egyptian-held strongholds of Gaza and Faluja, farther north.
The Egyptians claimed to be holding their ground.
The reported attack on Rafa posed a threat that the fighting might spread into Egypt. A British foreign office spokesman in London said Jewish forces last week deliberately pushed 20 miles into Egypt.
The "bulk" of that invasion force since has withdrawn into Palestine, the spokesman said, but there is no evidence that all the Israelis had left. The situation continues grave, he said.
Tel Aviv reports said James G. McDonald, head of the American mission to Palestine, has informed the Israeli government that the United States may withhold full recognition from Israel and deny it a 100 million dollar loan if the Jews invade Egypt.
Batavia. Java—Dutch army headquarters announced that its operations on Sumatra have ended with the occupation of three more towns. A similar announcement Jan. 2 said hostilities ceased on the island of Java Dec. 31.
Paris—The European management of the European Recovery program warned its 19 western European member nations that they will have to cut their living standards another 10 to 25 per cent and produce 15 per cent more if they want to balance their books by the time the Marshall program ends in 1952.
Rio de Janeiro—A British South American airways plane carrying 17 persons was reported to have crashed and burned near Caravelas Bay, about 500 miles north of Rio de Janeiro. First reports said three persons were killed. The plane was en route from London to Santiago, Chile.
Money Pours Into Kansas Treasury
Topcaa, Jan. 5-(UP)-The state of Kangue is rolling in revenue.
Fred Horn, commission chairman,
said today the take was a little over
16 per cent better than for 1947, the
previous record year when the agg-
gregate was $69,040,690.
During the calendar year 1948 the flow of fees and taxes into the state revenue and taxation commission reached the all-time peak total of $80,168,326.30.
Kansans made more and spent more. Mr. Horn said.
Reporting December collections of $3,850,154.50, Mr. Horn said each month of 1948 had witnessed a greater state revenue figure than in any corresponding month of the preceding year.
Kansas' fiscal year, which begins on July 1, is now half over and Mr. Horn listed collections in the six months as totaling $36,971,050.00, some $2,800,000 more than in the same period a year earlier.
"I wonder why the 'Sigma Phi Nothings' don't learn to use the telephone like the other fraternities do?"
Book Receipts Are Good For 15 Per Cent Of Value
A $14,628.99 rebate, the largest to be given for any six-month period will be released at 15 per cent of its face value to students presenting receipts at the Union book store beginning immediately, Ogden S. Jones chairman of the Union book store committee, announced today.
This brings the total rebate for has been declared in rebates for the four periods beginning Jan. 1, 1947, and ending Dec. 31, 1948.
brings the total rebate for 1948 to $24,653.55. A total of $40,771.29
The new rebate covers the six-month period from July 1, 1948 to Dec 31, 1948, but all previous slips are still redeemable.
"The Union operating committee feels very fortunate to have a man as capable as L. E. Woolley to manage the Student Union Book store." Mr. Jones said.
White rebate slips were used for the last six-month period while pink, yellow, and green slips were used for the previous periods. Salmon colored slips will be given with purchases during the next six months. These will be good for rebate beginning July 1, 1949. Each receipt color is good for five years, however, after that period the color is no longer valid and is dropped. A new color is then added to keep the receipts separated by periods to take care of any change in rebate percentage and to make easier bookkeeping. Mr. Woolley said.
Kansas—Fair south, partly cloudy north today, tonight and Thursday. Continued cold today. Not so cold west and south tonight and Thursday. High today 15 to 20 northwest and 25 to 30 southeast. Low tonight in 20's. Continued rather windy north.
All rebate slips which students discard on the floor of the book store are picked up by store employees and turned in for cash refund. The money has been used for four $100 scholarshipships and to purchase radios and games for Watkins Memorial hospital.
"We pay one of the highest cash rebate dividends of any university operating a student book store," Mr. Woolley added.
WEATHER
Faculty Quartet Recital Tomorrow
Miss Marian Jersilid, instructor of piano, Billie George, fine arts junior, Leo Horacek, assistant instructor of music education, and Jan Chiapusco, professor of piano, will give a recital at 3 p.m. tomorrow in Frank Strong auditorium.
Miss Jersild and Mr. Horacek will play the "Concerto for Trumpet and Piano" by Vittorio Giannini. He played this number Dec. 23 at the annual meeting of National Association of Schools of Music in Chicago.
4 KU Teams Enter McPherson Debates
Four University depale teams will attend the invitational debate tournament at McPherson, Saturday. More than 30 colleges, most of them from this region, will be represented.
Those making the trip are Dorothy Gilbert, Charles Hoffhaus and Harold L. Turner, College juniors; Sheila Wilder, Natalie Logan and Guy Goodwin, sophomores; Sally Gailand and Orval Swander, freshmen.
Miss George will play "Concerto in G minor" by Mendelssohn with orchestral parts played on the second piano by Professor Chiauspio.
C. B. Realey, professor, and William L. Winter, assistant professor, attended the American Historical association meeting in Washington, Dec. 28 to 30.
Kim Giffen, assistant professor of speech, and Orville Roberts, instructor, will attend as judges.
Attend History Meeting
President Asks For 4-Billion Tax Hike
Washington, Jan. 5—(UP)—President Truman today asked the new Democratic congress to hike federal taxes by four billion dollars and to authorize limited price and wage ceilings.
In his annual message on the state of the union,
- ment make loans for any necessary expansi
British Woman To Speak Here
Miss Margaret Bondfield, first woman British cabinet minister, will be the second speaker brought to the University this semester by the School of Business to celebrate its 25th anniversary.
She will talk at a special convocation at 4 p.m., Wednesday, Jan 12 in Frank Strong auditorium. Her topic will be "The New Age of Social Security."
Active in labor union organizations since her youth, Miss Bondfield became a member of parliament in 1923. In 1924, she was secretary to the minister of labor under the newly formed Labor party. In 1929, she was elected minister of labor and became the first woman to be a cabinet minister.
Now 75 years old, Miss Bondfield is in the United States on a nationwide lecture tour. She has been in this country previously to study social security legislation.
KU To Be Host For IFC March Confab
The Central States Inter-Fraternity Council conference, with 21 schools represented, will be "held here March 4-6, Joseph McCoskrie, local LF.C. president said today.
Ralph Kiene, engineering senior has been appointed general chairman.
Among the topics to be discussed in panel group will be pledge training programs, rushing procedures, financial programs, fraternity-university, relations, inter-fraternity relations, racial problems and public relations.
Seven committees have been tentatively set up including program, dinner, housing, social, publications, publicity, and correspondence. Announcement of committee heads and members will be made within the next few days, Kiene said.
Prof Generates Too Much Heat
There is at least one journalism instructor who must believe in giving his students practical experience.
By BORIS ARSON
The class in Reporting II completed its study of the methods of reporting fires Monday. This morning a can of liquid used for washing type exploded in the pressroom of the Daily Kansan. The professor had a sly smirk on his face as he yelled for all Reporting II students to get down-stairs.
No scoop, no byline—but the class covers murder stories next.
As they say, "A can of typewash exploded by what appeared to be spontaneous combustion at 10:35 this morning in the pressroom of the University Daily Kansas. The blaze was quickly extinguished by press employees and no damage resulted."
in such industries as steel where production is critically short. If private industry refuses to build the plants, Mr. Truman said the government itself should build them. The plan is bound to raise cries of "socialism."
The proposed four billion dollars in new taxes would lie heaviest on corporations but the president did not say whether by an excess profits levy or otherwise. Some new revenue would come from higher estate and gift taxes. Mr. Truman said congress also should consider raising tax rates in the upper and middle personal income brackets.
He delivered his "fair deal" message in person before a joint session of the 81st congress in the chamber of the house. Most of Mr. Truman's cabinet and the justices of the supreme court were among the distinguished and largely friendly audience.
"We have rejected the discredited theory that the fortunes of the nation should be in the hands of a privileged few," the president said. "We have abandoned the 'trickle-down' concept of national prosperity.
"Every segment of our population and every individual has a right to expect from his government a fair deal."
With that as a text, Mr. Truman fired at the new Democrat-controlled congress the long list of recommendations which the old Republican congress had ignored and on which he based his successful presidential campaign.
The message was heavily weighted with anti-inflation recommendations, short on specific foreign policy and national defense proposals, and long on costly projects to conserve natural resources and improve the lot of the poorer people.
He asked again for universal military training, restoration of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements act to full effectiveness, and an open door without unfair discrimination to displaced persons.
The president said the American people had been creating a society of new opportunities for all in the past 16 years.
"The recent election," he continued, "shows that the American people are in favor of this kind of society and want to go on improving it. The American people have decided that poverty is just as wasteful and just as unnecessary as disease."
He laid before congress some of the most bitterly controversial issues of our times, including pre-paid medical insurance, civil rights, repeal of the Hart-Tartley act and reenactment of the Wagner Labor Relations act.
But he qualified this repeal and re-enactment proposal by asking amendment of the Wagner act, as follows:
"Jurisdictional strikes and unjustifiable secondary boycotts should be prohibited. The use of economic force to decide issues arising out of the interpretation of existing wage contracts should be prevented. Without endangering our democratic freedoms, means should be provided for settling or preventing strikes in vital industries which affect the public interest."
He condemned the Taft-Hartley act with campaign vigor as unfair, discriminatory and an abridgment of labor's rights.
Mr. Truman proposed an eight point anti-inflation program with a
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