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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1948
Tojo Hanging Delayed Slightly By Court Appeal
Tokyo, Nov. 30—(UP)—Gen. Douglas MacArthur today granted a stay of execution to former Premier Hideki Tojo and six other condemned Japanese war lords as result of a two-man appeal to the U.S.
The seven men, scheduled to hang at any moment, were assured by General MacArthur's action that they would live at least until after the supreme court meets next Monday, Dec. 6.
All seven were condemned by the Far East military tribunal and their sentences were upheld by General MacArthur. It was believed they might have hanged today had not their appeal stayed the executions. The general has refused to reveal the date of executions.
The stay was granted by Genera MacArthur in two crisp words after two of the condemned men, former Premier Koki Hirota and Geni Kenji Doihara, went over General MacArthur's head with an appeal to the supreme court for a review of their trials.
The general replied "certainly not" when asked if the men would be executed before their appeals were heard. His public relations office explained that the stay of execution applied to all seven condemned men.
Should the court turn down their appeal, it is likely they would hang immediately—perhaps on Pearl Harbor day, Dec. 8, Orient time, or Dec. 7, United States time.
Franklin Warren, Tulsa, Okla,
American defense attorney for Doihara, said the appeal was primarily a challenge to the authority of General MacArthur as the American appointed executive of the allied powers of Japan.
Under this authority, he set up the court that tried Japan's leaders. Mr Warren claimed that the crime of aggression for which they were tried never had been defined by an American legislative body nor by international law.
The supreme court also was asked to rule on the sentences of five others sentenced to prison terms in addition to the two condemned to death, Mr. Warren said. Instructions to appeal were telegraphed to attorney William Logan, joint defense representative in Washington, he said.
The Lawrence Community Chest committee reported today that the fund is just $71.69 short of the goal of $19,246.86. The total which has been collected in cash and pledges is $19,175.17. The committee hoped to reach the goal this week.
Red Feather Drive $72 Shy Of Goal
Of the $18,563.92 in cash contributions, students of the University gave $759.79 and the faculty members and employees of the University gave $1,901.
The nine organizations which the Community Chest aids are the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, the Hi-Y, the Y-Teens, the 4-H clubs, the Y.M.C.A., and the Y.W.C.A., the Salvation Army, and the Social Service League. Three community activities are also dependent on the Community Chest. They are the Christmas parade, street decorations, and the wrapping station in the Community Chest office of the Chamber of Commerce, the Fourth of July celebration, and housing assistance.
YMCA Players To See Movie
All Y.M.C.A. basketball players are invited to attend a movie, "Phillips Oilers 63" 7:30 tonight. It will be shown in 205, Bailey Chemistry& laboratory. Don Clark, Y.M.C.A. basketball manager, will be in charge.
By Bibler
Little Man On Campus
"You should do well in this course. Miss Paddon."
When Grizzly Bears Are Sunflowers State Transition Will Be Complete
"Kansans have not quite taken over in Montana, but it won't be long . . . " George W. McVey, '23, recently wrote Fred Ellsworth, alumni association secretary.
The retiring governor, Sam C. Ford, received his law degree in 1906 Two members of the state supreme court are graduates of the University Hugh Adair, '13, is chief justice and Raymond V. Bottomly, '15 was elect-
Mr. Adair, but for the ruling of the court he now heads, might have been governor of Montana. Gov. J. E. Erickson resigned and Lt. Gov. Frank H. Cooney became the chief executive.
daymond V. Bottomly, 15, was elected recently to a six-year term.
There was a dispute in the 1934 elections whether a vacancy existed for governor, lieutenant governor or both. Mr. Adair, thinking the No.2 spot was open, filed, but the supreme court ruled there was no vacancy for either office.
He tried again in 1936 and was elected. "If I had been permitted to run in 1934 and had done as well," Mr. Adair said, "I would have been governor when Mr. Cooney died."
Membership is limited to the students in the highest 10 percent of the senior class and the highest 2 percent of the junior class of the School of Business.
Mr. Adair is probably the nation's only chief justice who can keep a weather eye on what he calls his "ranch" while writing opinions in his state house chamber. His corral, in sight of his office windows is just across the street from the state highway department building in Helena.
Mr. Bottomly has been attorney general of Montana since 1942. He recently represented Montana before the International Joint commission in a controversy over the allocation of the water of Sage creek near the Canadian border.
The Alpha chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma, scholarship honor fraternity of collegiate schools of business, will elect new members at a meeting at 4 p.m. Thursday in the Seminar room, Frank Strong annex F.
Once in a hurry to reach court for a hearing, Mr. Adair simply tied his horse behind the capitol and rushed to his seat on the bench—his flowing black robe falling to hide the incongruous clump-clump of high heeled cowboy boots.
Initiation for the new members will be held sometime this semester. The date will be announced later.
Business Fraternity Will Elect Members
Seventy-seven members of four co-operative houses at the University obtained board and room during October for an average cost of $37.15.
The K.U. Co-op council estimated the average saving at $23 compared to what other independent students paid for comparable accommodations and meals. In co-op houses the members share the cooking and household duties as well as costs. Other economies are effected through quantity purchasing.
Three of the five campus co-ops rent their houses from the Student Housing association. The Henley group rents the Y.W.C.A. clubhouse and the Rock Chalk co-op occupies the second floor of a business property.
The 10 women at Henley lived the most economically, spending only $27.85 per member. The Rock Chalk men averaged $40.40 for the month. Food cost was the principal difference between men and women.
HCL Is Cut By Co-ops
Co-op housebills are running slightly higher than those of the University - operated scholarship residence halls. Smaller rental charges account for most of the latters' advantage.
The monthly report covered the Rock Chalk, Jayhawk and Don Henry co-ops for men and Henley co-op for women. Data for the 34 women living at Harmon Co-op were not submitted to the auditing committee.
Inter-dorm council will sing Christmas carols to organized houses Tuesday, Dec. 14. Each caroler will carry a candle.
The committees and their chairmen are music, Susan Stayton, College senior; publicity, Virginia Doan, engineering sonhomore; chaperons, Phyllis Mcfarland, fine arts freshman; and route of houses, Jerry Horney, education senior.
Organized Houses To Hear
Inter-Dorm Carolers Sing
Missing Link Not Missing; It Just Never Was There
Berkley, Calif.—(UP)—The famous "missing link" of man's prehistoric climb toward civilization may be missing simply because it never existed.
Dr. Richard Goldschmidt of the University of California, unveiling new evidence to support his racial theory of evolution, says the classic Darwin theory may be all wrong.
Crochet Champion Is A Railroad Engineer
New York, Nov. 30—(UP)—An Iowa railroad engineer shared top honors today with Mrs. Pauline Ploudre of Silver Creek, N. Y., for the national crochet championship sponsored by the National Needlecraft bureau.
Louis I. Walter of Mason City, Iowa, a 61-year-old grandfather of 11, won a three day trip to New York for his delicately embroidered bedspread, which headed the men's division. He admitted he took a lot of kidding from his fellow railroaders, but added, "they know just how far they can go."
Chinese Reds Still Moving
Shanghai; the Chinese city best known to foreigners and one of the world's great ports, appeared doomed also. Loss of Nanking would mean capture of the great port some 200 miles to the southeast within a matter of days or a few weeks at most, observers believed.
Nanking, Nov. 30—(UP)—Chinese Communists began a pincer movement on Nanking today which appeared to doom Chiang Kai-Shk's capital to early capture, perhaps within a few days.
The so-called "great victory" in which Nationalist forces beat off the Communist threat to Suchow, 200 miles northwest of Nanking, appeared to have boomeranged. Communist forces flowed around Suchow, encircling it and cutting off nearly 150,000 Nationalist troops there.
Rushing southward along the Suchow-Nanking rail line, the Communists were at the gates of Pengpu, 105 miles north of Nanking and the last bastion before the Yangtze and the capital. Reports from Pengpu said gunfire could be heard in the city, which was only thinly defended despite the arrival there of some Nationalist troops who escaped from Manchuria when that rich area fell to the Red forces.
Should they succeed in doing so in force, the Nanking escape route by river and railroad to Shanghai would be cut.
He thinks modern man may have descended from a "monster" instead of slowly evolving by a succession of minor changes.
Dr. Goldschmidt, one of the world's eminent authorities on heredity and genetics, is studying laboratory experiments which indicate that most new species of life come into existence by sudden "cataclysmic" changes rather than by developing over thousands of years.
The suddenly-born mutations are "monsters" compared to their ancestors, which eventually they may supplant.
"Now it appears that hetero-chromatin may be responsible for these cataclysmic changes in life spec. Dr. Goldschmidt said." And there is some hint that it also may be concerned with the determination of sex. But it is very inconclusive so far."
Until recently, Dr. Goldschmidt had little laboratory evidence to explain how this sudden-evolution process might work. Then he began experimenting with a mysterious particle in living cells, called heterochromatin.
Pointing out that "monsters" are created by almost every species, including mankind, Dr. Goldschmidt said he thinks they may be "hopeful experiments" by nature rather than her mistakes.
If such monsters survive and thrive, he theorized, they may become the fathers of new species.
That explains why there are so many "missing links" in evolution which never have been found.
While believers in the Darwin theory of gradual evolution scoff at Dr. Goldschmidt's ideas, he challenges them to explain how hairless animals developed hair, how spineless creatures came to have back-bones and how some organisms appeared with the skeletons of their bodies on the outside rather than inside their bodies.
Dr. Goldschmidt's laboratory experiments with netero-chromatin and fruit flies, produced similar monsters in one generation, "indicating this cellular substance is in charge of early development and growth processes."
Wins Legislative Seat
Jerome Beatty, '08, was elected the Connecticut house of representatives on the Republican ticket. He will remain on the staff of the American magazine.
US Cities Banning Comic Books; State Statutory Power May Be Used
Chicago—(UP)—The American Municipal association reports that nearly 50 cities have banned the sale of certain comic books. The books were declared盗版.
The books were declared objectionable by various civic grouns.
Los Angeles and Terre Haute, Ind., are the first localities to pass ordinances placing the bans in effect. In Los Angeles county, the ordinance prohibits the sale of comic books dealing with murder, burglary, kidnapping, arson or assault with deadly and civile grievance.
murder, burglary, kidnapping, arson or assault with deadly weapons.
County Supervisor Leonard J. Roach of Los Angeles seeks to have the ban adopted by the California legislature to cover the entire state.
Terre Haute's ordinance bans the sale, display, printing and distribution of undesirable comic books. A 10-member civic board will decide which are undesirable.
Many other cities are setting up censorship committees. Among the most recent to do so are Oneida City, N.Y., and East Hartford, Conn. In both cities dealers promised cooperation.
Indianapolis has removed 52 "objectiveball" comic books from the market through co-operation with distributors.
In Racine, Wis., comic book dealers are doing their own censoring,
in co-operation with city officials
Twenty states have laws forbidding the sale of obscene, indecent, harmful or immoral literature. These statutes could be applied to comic books. In Detroit, the county prosecutor held that certain comics violated Michigan statutes, and Detroit distributors banned the books from circulation.
However, the validity of such state laws is being questioned. A recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court held a New York law constitutional. The law prohibited distribution of magazines composed principally of crime news or stories of bloodshed and lust.
In Illinois, lower courts have a case pending in which the city of Chicago had been challenged, for interfering with distributors' of comic books under a state law.
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