University Daily Kansan STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS 48th Year No.57 Friday, Dec. 10, 1948
Rumor Of Feud Among Frats Is Squelched
Hospital authorities said today that Richard C. Harris, College junior, who was run down Wednesday night by an unidentified car, is improving. They said that his right wrist had been fractured, but were unable to tell when he would be released from the hospital.
C. A. Bleisner, chief of Lawrence police, said today that an investigation is being made, but refused to comment to the Daily Kansan reporter on the progress of the case.
L. C. Woodruff, dean of men, said that he knew of no inter-fraternity friction at this time. However, his office is investigating the possibility he said.
Must Follow Final Hours
Gordon Walters, president of Delta Chi fraternity of which Harris is a member, said that he knew of no basis for the report that the incident was due to an inter-fraternity feud. Walters said the assumption was entirely in error.
The final examination schedule must be followed by all students and faculty members unless it works an unusual hardship upon an individual student or members of a certain class.
The calendar committee prepared the examination schedule which has been approved by the University senate. The official examination schedule must be followed since University regulations do not permit finals to be given before the regular final examination week. Thursday, Jan. 20 is the first day for finals and Thursday, Jan. 27 is the last.
In case of a conflict in final hours or an excessive load, students may present a petition for relief from the regular schedule to the University calendar committee for consideration. A written request for change of final examination time must be presented to the committee not later than two weeks before the opening of final week.
Requests must show the students' entire class schedule, the nature of the conflict, and recommendations of any instructors concerned. Those submitting requests will be notified in writing of the action of the committee.
Mere convenience to the student or to the instructor cannot be considered a valid reason for change of examination time. A genuine conflict must be shown. Three final examinations on one day are not considered to be an excessive load unless medical authority indicates that it is too much of a burden on a particular student. However, any student having as many as four examinations in one day is invited to submit his case to the committee.
2 Russian Films Will Be Shown
The English department will sponsor a showing of the "Chekov Film Festival" Tuesday, Dec. 14
Examinator schedules are now available in the registrar's office.
Film Festival Tuesday, December 10 in Fraser theater. The movie, adapted from two Chekov plays, "Marriage" and "Jubilee," is a Russian language film with English sub-titles.
The film will be shown at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Admission will be 25 cents.
Along with the regular feature will be an added short of selections from "The Lower Depths."
Save Electricity, Chancellor Says
As a result of the power and light emergency at Topeka, the University of Kansas must generate all of its own electricity. The generating capacity is insufficient for the normal load of the University.
Every student, staff member and employee is therefore urged to cooperate in the saving of electricity in every possible way until normal service can be restored.
DEANE W. MALOTT,
Chancellor.
FBI Keeps Tab On Alger Hiss
Washington, Dec. 10—(UP)—The F.B.I. sent the state department periodic reports on Alger Hiss during his 10 years with the department, it was learned today. There was no indication as to what was in the reports.
The F.B.I. refused to confirm or deny that its agents were interested in Mr. Hiss long before ex-Communist Whittaker Chambers told the house un-American activities committee that Mr. Hiss slipped him secret state department documents to hand to a Communist spy ring.
Justice department sources said the F.B.I. action with regard to Mr. Hiss was in line with its policy of passing along to government agencies any pertinent information it picks up about their employees.
Meanwhile, there were these developments in the house committee's espionage investigation:
1. Investigators revealed they have found their last "missing" suspect in Apuleton, Wis., and have telegraphed him to be at 2 p.m. (E.S.T.) or face a subpoena. The man, now an instructor at the Institute of Paper Chemistry, worked for the U.S. Bureau of Standards from 1930 to 1939, and allegedly gave Mr. Chambers information to pass on to Communist agents.
The documents involved in the case were hidden by Mr. Chambers when he left the Communist party in 1938. He recently surrendered them to the committee in microfilmed and photostated form.
2. The house committee angrily rejected a justice department request that it stop questioning witnesses who appear before a New York federal grand jury now studying Communism and espionage.
Among them were state department cablegrams covering American foreign relations in 1937 and 1938.
Seek To Settle Rental Case Out Of Court
The 19 University students who have brought suit for alleged rem overcharges will ask for a judgment by default if the summons for the defendant to appear in Federal District court is not answered by Dec. 18, Alfred B. Page, attorney for the students, said Thursday. The defendant named in the suit is Hobart Hanson, director of institutes and conferences for University extension.
A. B. Mitchell, Hanson's attorney,
said that he would make an attempt before the end of the week to settle the case out of court. Mr.
Mitchell also said that if there is no settlement out of court, he will definitely answer the summons.
The case was filed in federal district court in Topeka Nov. 29 by Mr. Page, the attorney for the students. The petition listed each alleged overcharge as a separate count. The students contend that the rents paid were in many cases nearly double those allowed by rent control regulations.
MU-Students Walk Out
University of Missouri students walked out of their classes Thursday in protest to what they called the short Christmas holiday period.
Mr. Hanson said that he was confident that a settlement would be made out of court.
Dr. Frederick A. Middlebush, president of the university, attempted to explain to the demonstrating students just why a longer vocation was impossible. But he gave up after his speech was interrupted by boos and shouts of "What about Rolla?"
Existing law allows collection of triple damages for overcharging of rents in emergency housing areas.
The university's school of mines at Rolla, which operates under a different annual schedule than the university at Columbia, will dismiss students several days earlier than M.U. The M.U. students wanted to be dismissed at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 18, instead of Wednesday, Dec. 22.
WEATHER
There Once Was A Whale In Potter Or Students In '11 Were Awful Liars
Kansas—Partly cloudy today, tonight and tomorrow with a few snow flurries north tomorrow. Warmer afternoon temperatures in central and east today.
The strange fish, whose appearance was first recorded by the Graduate magazine in 1911, made its debut shortly after the band concert and swimming contests. The ensuing aquatic spouting brought the program to a standstill as the crowd watched open-mouthed.
That's the cry that went up when the crowd, assembled for the 1911 commencement regatta on Potter lake, sighted a whale-like creature floating to the lake's surface spouting water.
"There's a whole in Potter lake!"
A boat load of volunteers shoved off to investigate the center of attraction but several yards from shore the boat overturned and sent the people sprawling into the water.
An attempt was made to resume the program but the intruder managed to appear during each event in an obvious effort to steal the show.
Evidently deciding that everyone was trying to get into the act, the mysterious creature finally disappeared into the depths of the lake and never returned.
Thus the mystery of Potter lake remains today, unanswered. Yet several hundred eyewitnesses, on that hot June afternoon in 1911, swore they saw Mt. Oread visited by what appeared to be a displaced Moby Dick.
One More Death In Topeka Blast
Topeka, Dec. 10—(UP)—A still unexplained power plant explosion near the Kansas capital claimed its ninth life today. All major industries in the city of 90,000 were shut down for lack of electric energy while engineers of the Kansas Power and Light company toiled in sub-freezing weather to restore power production at the big brick generating station
'Sex Education Is Key'--Foster
The first year of marriage is one of adjustment. One aspect of this adjustment is that of sexual relationships, Dr. Robert G. Foster, professor of home economics, said Thursday in the concluding lecture of the love and marriage series.
"Sex education should not be isolated from the context of social and emotional attitudes," Dr. Foster said. "Sex education should be an integral part of every individual's total adjustment, beginning in his earliest years."
The attitudes we form early and throughout our development as young men and women are more important than the knowledge of specific facts of anatomy and physiology. he said.
"Education in understanding one's self sexually and emotionally must be a continuous process and cannot be done all in one sitting at the age of 5, 12, or 21." Dr. Foster said.
Dr. Foster also spoke of the necessity of overcoming all inhibitions which prohibit normal adjustment, of overcoming ignorance and lack of knowledge of what sex relationship is all about, and of being understanding and considerate of each other in this area as well as in other areas of family relationships.
NROTC Tests To 75 Men
Competitive entrance exams will be given at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow in the lecture room of Lindley hall to about 75 students desiring to enter N.R.O.T.C. training. The tests had originally been scheduled for the drill hall of the Military Science building but were changed due to the dances being held there.
Students taking the examination must be qualified to enter the college of their choice. They must be between the ages of 17 and 21, and able to pass rigid physical requirements. The purpose of the test is to select the students best qualified for N.R.O.T.C. training and to determine those with the best abilities to serve as officers.
The tests are given on a competitive basis with a certain quota to be filled from each district of the United States. They are graded at the Princeton Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J. It will be about two or three months before the students will be given the results of their tests.
VFW's Entertain Football Players
Four University football players, Carl Ellis, Hugh Johnson, Floyd Temple, and Bill Mace were hosts at a Veterans of Foreign Wars barbecue supper Thursday night. All varsity football players and their wives attended.
Members of the V.F.W. Alford-Clarke post 852 and the auxiliary, and their families also attended. Movies were shown after the supper.
five miles to the east of Topeka.
Topeka had an emergency ration of electricity, about a third the normal flow. It was obtained from tying into Kansas Gas and Electric company lines at Wichita. But there was not enough power for industrial plants, and an estimated 3,500 workers were idle.
J. L. Owens, plant superintendent,
said repair work was "slow going."
When repair is completed, the blast-
ton station will be able to furnish
about half its former power output.
The cause of the blasts remained undetermined. At first it was believed one or more of the six big boilers had exploded, but investigation voided that theory.
Some workmen said they had smelled gas at the plant.
Sixteen workmen were hospitalized from the disaster that came without warning and only 20 minutes after a routine inspection of plant valves. A number of other workmen, many from outside firms aiding in a $15,000,000 expansion program, suffered minor scratches but did not require hospital treatment.
R. W. McClure, company vice-president, said after dawn, "we feel sure everyone is now out of the plant."
Separated by but a few seconds, the explosions originated in the basement in the southeast corner of the structure. They catapulted concrete slabs, tore out huge two-story high steel framed windows in the turbine room and smaller ones through the plant, and left them hanging in tatters. Steel doors were twisted like foil.
Rescuers were hampered by flames and smoke. One of the injured, Robert Bradford, who had worked in the plant 23 years, was overcome by smoke after re-entering the plant twice in search of his brother-in-law, Hamby, whose body later was taken from the wreckage.
Residents of Lawrence have been asked to restrict their services. It is questionable if the needs of residents and business will be unfilled.
The University has been asked to cut down to essentials the use of electric power. The University has been using its own power and the facilities are not equipped to carry a full load.
John A. LaMonica, housing manager at Sunflower, asked co-operation of tenants and said that utilities may be rationed if voluntary cooperation does not work. Hand-bills explaining the situation will be distributed today to all units of the federal housing project.
'House Of Magic' In Hoch Today
General Electric "House of Magic" will be shown today at 4 p.m. and again at 8 p.m. in Hoch auditorium. William A. Gluesing, an electrical engineer and magician, will present the hour-long show.
Some of the features of the "House of Magic" are a train that observal commands, light bulbs lighted by matches, a man shaking hands with his own shadow, exploding paper with its sparks "shadowgraphed," and many other scientific demonstrations.
No illusions or tricks are involved in the show. Mr. Gluesing draws on his experience as a magician to make the show as entertaining as it is educational.