University Daily Kansan
46% Year No. 50
Wednesday, Dec. 1, 1948
Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
O F THE U N I V E R S I T Y O F K A N S A S
Pianists To Play In Hoch Tonight
Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale, duo-pianists, will appear at 8:20 tonight in Hoch auditorium. This is the third in the major University concert series.
They will play a program of both modern and classical numbers written for two pianos. The program will include "Siicienne" by Bach, "Sonata in D Major" by Mozart, "Variations" by Brahms, "Danzon Cubano" and "Hoedown" by Copland, "Danse Creole" and "Brasiliera" by Milhaud, and "Suite Champetre" by Rieti.
Student activity books admit to the concert.
Fall Symphony in Hoch Monday
The University Symphony orchestra will present its annual fall concert at 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 6, in Hoch auditorium. The 96-piece group is directed by Prof. Russell L. Wiley. The soloist will be W. Thomas Marocco, associate professor of violin and first violinist of the orchestra.
The major work presented will be "Symphony in B Flat Major" by Ernest Chausson, 19th century French composer. This will be the first time the piece has been performed at the University.
Professor Marroocco will play "Concerto in B minor" by A. D'Ambrosio with orchestra accompaniment.
The overture will be Beethoven's "Leonore No. 3."
The Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences awards for work ending in July will go to Paul W. Hare, '48, and Robert L. Aker, engineering senior.
3 Men Get ASI Awards
A third award, given by the local chapter, will go to Joseph Q. Keller, engineering senior, for the best technical paper of the past year.
Mr. Hare received the scholastic award, a leather bound certificate two-year paid membership in the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, for having the highest grade average for his junior and senior years.
Aker received similar prizes for the lecture award. His lecture, given before the student chapter, was entitled "Goodyear Cross Wind Landing Gear."
Keller received a $5 prize for his paper entitled "Design of an Efficient Pilot Relief Tube."
Botany Department Gets Research Grant
A grant of $11,425 has been made to the University botany department by the United States navy for research in the physiology of dermatophytes, a fungus parasite found on the skin of men or animals.
Dr. A. J. Mix, chairman of the botany department, is directing the project. The research is being conducted by Lewis E. Goyette, graduate student in botany. Goyette's laboratory assistant is Robert Simonton, journalism junior.
The research began in June and under the present contract will end in December. 1950.
WEATHER
Kansas-Fair, partly cloudy today, tonight and Thursday. Somewhat warmer today and east tonight. Thursday becoming colder. High today 47 to 55, low tonight 25 west to 35 east.
Chinese Capital Endangered By Red Onslaught
By UNITED PRESS
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek prepared today for a last-ditch defense of Nanking, capital of Nationalist China, as Chinese Communists sent powerful new forces south from conquered Manchuria to join in the battle.
Strong Communist units already were moving to throw a pincers around the Generalissimo's capital, and it was believed that Nanking could not be saved for more than a few weeks. But Chiang was reported determined to hold out for as much as three months, if possible.
Plans already have been made for removal of government offices to such points as Canton, some 800 miles to the south near Hongkong, Chungking, the Chinese war-time capital on the upper reaches of the Yangtze, and Formosa.
High sources in Nanking said that Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, American-educated wife of the Generalissimo who now is in the United States to ask for American aid, had as a primary concern an attempt to persuade Secretary of State George C. Marshall that a high American military figure should be appointed to direct Nationalist armies.
It was reported that Gens. Douglas MacArthur, Albert C. Wedemeyer, and Mark Clark were among those considered for such a post. But Marshall has refused previously to consider any such action.
In Berlin, German Communists completed the job of splitting the city government by barring the anti-Communist acting mayor from his office in the city hall, which is in the Russian sector.
The Big Three Western powers, the United States, Britain, and France, reacted by serving notice once again in the United Nations that they were reserving the right to take any action that might be necessary to maintain their positions in the German capital in the face of the Russian blockade of the Western sectors and other Communist moves.
Jerusalem—Unaccustomed quiet hung over the Holy City, as Arabs and Israeli complied with a ceasefire order negotiated by the UN
The fall issue of the "Jayhawker," University yearbook, will be delivered in Lawrence by Monday, Dec. 6 at the very latest, editor Bill Conboy said today. The publication of the magazine has been delayed because of a conflict with other contracts at the printers. Conboy added.
Jayhawker Out By Next Monday
"We are simply standing in line now, waiting our turn," Conboy said. "A notice will be placed in the Daily Kansan telling when the books are available."
The All-Student Council has received a check for $0 from Kansas State college to cover damage to the K. U. campus after Kansas State's football victory over Arkansas Teachers, Robert F. Bennett, treasurer, announced at a council meeting Tuesday. The money will go to the buildings and grounds department.
wilson, on duty in a B-24 which crashed in October 1944 in Vermont, had trouble at first learning to walk with artificial legs. Months passed before he was able to use crutches or canes because his artificial hands were unable to grasp firmly.
The Christmas issue will be out on time. It is scheduled to appear Monday, Dec. 20.
The Council voted to withdraw the $315.41 remaining in the Bitter Bird fund and the $61.47 remaining in the Independent organization account. Both organizations are defunct.
After some argument, the Council voted to set aside the rules pertaining to the appropriation of money and appropriated the money in the Independent organization account to the Independent Student association. The two organizations amalgamated two years ago.
K-State Pays For Paint Job
Now he shaves, dresses himself, drives a car, and operates an electric typewriter. The V.A. provided the car, equipped with special hand attachments for gas and brakes, and the typewriter, on which he takes examinations and prepares assignments. When he finishes work for his A.B. degree, he plans to enter law school.
William A. Conboy, publications committee chairman, said that the University calendar may be ready by Christmas. A request from I.S.A. to be exempted from paying the dance managers fee was rejected by the social committee.
Losing Both Arms And Legs Doesn't Down Two Veterans
The President's council of Associated Women Students attended the meeting.
Frederick Hensel, Birmingham, Ala., whose arms and legs were blown off by a Japanese shell on Okinawa, is taking institutional on-the-farm training under public law 16 on his own farm, purchased with funds donated by citizens of Chicago, Ill.
Carver Is Frosh YMCA Head
James Wilson, Jacksonville, Fla., radio operator who lost both legs and arms in a wartime airplane crash, has begun his third year as a pre-law student at the University of Florida. $ \textcircled{4} $
Robert E. Carver, freshman engineer, was elected president of the freshman YMCA group at a meeting Tuesday. Robert A. Hanson was chosen vice-president, and Gordon Martin secretary-treasurer.
Hensel started training under public law 16 more than two years ago on his farm, situated between Mt. Pinson and Birmingham, Ala He had no previous experience at farming.
Hensel concentrates on raising chickens but has one of the area's richest alfalfa fields, 40 head of cattle, and corn, oats, lespedeza, and vegetables.
"Today," his nearest neighbor said, "he's got us coming to him for advice."
The V.A. provided him with a tractor under its "conveyances for amputees" program, and the Ford Motor company, where he was employed before the war, gave him a new car equipped with hand controls.
Hensel's hobby is squirrel and quail hunting. He uses a shotgun which he designed to fit his armless body.
Students Allege Rent Overcharge
By GERALD FETTEROLF
A suit for recovery of $3,249 triple damages for alleged over charging in rental rates was filed Monday in the federal district court against Hobart Hanson, director of conferences for University Extension. The suit was filed by Alfred B. Page, Topeka lawyer for 19 students who had rented rooms in Mr. Hanson's house at 1218 Mississippi street.
Price To Speak In Marriage Series
The Roy, Edwin Price, director of the Wesley foundation, will speak on "Religion in Marriage: Bond or Barrier?" at 4 p.m. tomorrow on the second floor of Myers hall. This is the third of the lectures on love and marriage sponsored by the home economics department.
Dr. Robert G. Foster, professor of home economics, will conclude the series Thursday, Dec. 9. He will speak on "The First Year of Marriage."
Corbin Annex Design Made
The $500,000 extension for Corbin hall is designed except for a few details, George M. Beal, chairman of the University building program, said today.
The building will extend 160 feet north of Corinb孔业. A wing 80 feet long will extend east at the north end of the annex.
The extension will accommodate about 200 women students. A majority of the rooms will house two women students but there will be a few larger rooms and a few single rooms. The building will use the heating plant of Corbin hall and its kitchen facilities but will have its own dining, living, recreation, and laundry rooms.
It will have a pitched roof and will be made of brick matching the older building.
General Signed For Lecture Tour
Lt. Gen. Raymond S. McLain, U.S. army chief of information, will make six addresses in a four-state area next week, Guy V. Keeler, director of the University Extension lecture course bureau, said today. General McLain will discuss the nation's preparedness program.
His first address will be Dec. 6, in Fort Smith, Ark. He will speak in Okmulgue, Okla., in the afternoon and evening of Dec. 7. On Dec. 8 General McLain will speak at noon in Coffeyville and at night in Independence.
His main address will be Dec. 9 at the Wentworth Military academy, Lexington, Mo.
General McLain has been army chief of information since January. He is a veteran of both World Wars and was commanding general of the 45th division in its amphibious operations in Sicily in 1943. He was commanding general of the 19th corps from October 1944 until V-E day
UNESCO Conference Set
For February At Wichita U
A conference of students from Kansas schools, which have U.N.E.S.C.O. councils, has been scheduled for Feb. 3, 4, and 5, at Wichita university, Walter Crockett, graduate student and secretary of the Intercollegiate committee of U.N.E.S.C.O., announced today.
Richard C. Bradley, College sophomore, who lived at the house, said that although the students had tried to get the rents lowered, Mr. Hanson had refused. The rent was almost double that allowed by the rent control board, Bradley said.
Mr. Hanson denied that there had been any complaints to him about the rental rates. He said that the rent control board had allowed him to charge those rents pending adjustment.
"My lawyer has conferred with Mr. Page and arrangements have been made to settle the matter without court procedure,"Mr. Hanson said. "We expect the case to be settled next week by the lawyers."
Rents charged during the 1947-48 school terms were $20 for each rooom. This year the rates are $18.
B. F. Messick, area rent director for Shawnee and Douglas counties, quoted the rent ceilings allowed at the rooming house as:
Second floor rooms—$20 for one roomer, $30 for two, and $40 for three; third floor rooms—$17.50 for one roomer, $27.50 for two, and $35 for three.
Bradley said that Mr. Hanson had quoted a source at the University as having said that the amounts charged were all right.
Irvin Youngberg, who was director of housing during the 1947 fall semester, said, "The housing office of the University has never attempted to set rental rates." He said that information regarding average rental rates had been given on inquiry, but that no recommendations had been made.
Mr. Page attorney for the complainants, said that another case brought by six other students against Mr. Hanson had been filed recently. The cases will be consolidated in court, Mr. Page said.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott said that "the University anticipates no action on the case." He added that he had not heard about the case until he read about it in the papers.
Lawrence has been under the provisions of the federal housing and rental act of 1947, and prior to that date it was considered a defense rental area because of the housing shortage.
The complaint of each student was filed with the clerk of the district court as a separate count, Mr. Page said. The law involved allows for triple recovery of the amount over-charged. The students also petition for attorney fees and court costs.
Students who filed the suit Monday are: Robert C. Taggart, $180; Ray L. Culbertson, $150; Bruce T. Hurd, $142.50; James B. Willard, $160; Tom P. Gallagher, jr., $45; Dale E. Bush, $12.50; Bradley, $213.75; Marlin D. Trock, $112.50; Max Haves, $180; Joy H. Armstrong, $195.75; Chas F. Hall, $198.75; Wm J. Mason, $180; J. S. Seeber, 213; C. L. Kendick, $90; Robert Merle Rymph, $90; Robert Paul Hathaway, $195; James B. Willard, $48; Ralph L. Moore, $258; Verlin O. Dowd, $153; Charles A. Miller, $38.50; William S. Bringer, jr., $48; John R. Kongs, $54; James D. Frisbie, $54; Keith G. Wauerle, $69; and Bill J. Mc Murray, $69.
Dean Habein To Speak
Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women, will speak on "Entertaining Your Friends" today at Independence, Mo., to a group sponsored by the University extension.