University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Nov. 16, 1948
Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
Local Officers Ban Parlay Card Bets
As the result of a move made by the Douglas county attorney's office the past week, students may be forced to spend Friday nights studying textbooks instead of football parlay cards.
Robert B. Oyler, county attorney, said Monday he has received several complaints that parlay cards are being displayed in Lawrence, and that he
complaints that parlay cards are bem has asked Will Johns, sheriff, to "notify any persons who might be taking bets on parlay cards to discontinue or face prosecution."
Mr. Oyler said:
"The taking of bets on parlay cards is in violation of the law. If the practice is continued, there will be no further warning. We will issue warrants for arrest."
Some students surmised the complaint against the card was made by disgruntled bettors who had not "paid off" by one particular parlay ring.
Although the sheriff's office reported it knew of no parlay cards issued the past weekend, students said that while the cards were difficult to obtain, a few establishments "kept them under the counter instead of on it" as they had in the past. They said only two cards were out this weekend, whereas more than six had been available in the past.
past:
When asked about parlay cards, the proprietor of one establishment said:
Parlay cards? What parlay cards? Don't even mention that word in here. They're even going to arrest students if they find cards in their pockets."
Mr. Oyler said betting on the cards is against the law, but merely possessing them is not.
Blame Reds For Strikes
Paris, Nov. 16—(UP)—The French government decided today to air in parliamentary debate its detailed charges that the Communist information bureau (Coinform) has fomented and subsidized France's two-month series of labor conflicts. At the same time, the government introduced in parliament a series of tough measures cracking down on saboteurs, strike agitators, and black market profitteers.
market prize.
In a four-hour meeting just before parliament convened after its annual holiday, the cabinet of Premier Henri Queuille authorized Rules Moch, minister of the interior, to agree to debate right-wing questions asking details of his recent charges that international Communism supported the recent French strikes.
French strikes.
The debate was to begin today and was expected to last two or three days.
Whether Premier Queuille would seek a vote of confidence for his coalition government's handling the coal strike, which was smashed largely by use of security guards and troops, was uncertain.
the cabinet did not authorize the premier to seek such a vote of confidence, but government sources indicated he might do so if the debate becomes stormy.
Strong forces of police and mobile guards surrounded both the assembly and the council of the republic, the upper house of parliament, as they met, taking precautions against any possible demonstrations.
WEATHER
Kansas — Partly cloudy west, mostly cloudy east today. Occasional light drizzle with strong southerly winds extreme east this forenoon. Northerly winds 25 to 30 miles per hour over most of state by evening.
Men's Quartets Will Harmonize
Ten men's quartets have entered the barbershop quartet contest which will be held at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Fraser theater. The contest is sponsored by the Y.W.C.A.
The contestants will draw for the order of appearance on the program. The groups are as follows:
Beta Theta Pi; Wayne Atwood, Byron Bohl, Bob Dare, and Ralph Simmons. battenfelt hall; Fred Doornobos, Wallace Abbey, Darrell Brown, and Douglas Kent.
Delta Tau Dellia: Dave Deliae, Bob McDaniel, Four Bobs: Bob Dunwell, Bob Kite, Bob Casad and Bob Date, Judy J., Miller, Perry Prissach, Cloud Nichol, and J. D. Dressé
Phi Delta Theta; Marvin Martin, Dean Kaiser; David Lloyd, Keith Pi Kappa Alpha; Bob Flatt, Eric Eriksen, Jim Dray, and Jim Small. Kappa Sigma. Bob Swain, Bob Swain, Billy Sapp, and Woolley Keller.
Sigma Chi: Todd Seymour, Bob Dubo,
Bill Richardson, and Benny Kramprath;
Bobby Warblers: Tommy Lovitt, Loren
Tumbelson, Dewane and Dwight Optiq-
bee.
Ed Stolenwerck will be master of ceremonies. Oliver Hobbs, Corlett Cotton, and Gerald Carney will be the judges. First prize will be an engraved beer mug.
Intermission entertainment will be a song, "By the Sea," sung by Barbara Coats, Pat Foncannon, Marianne Gear, Betty Armstrong, Joyce Newcomer, and Janet Maloney.
Milt Commons is the stage manager and Mary Swanson will give the tonal pitch to the quartets who will not be accompanied by musical instruments.
Admission is 30 cents. Tickets may be obtained at the business office or at the Y.W.C.A. office in Henley house. Mabel Conderman is the ticket chairman. Other chairmen are Emily Stewart, publicity; and Betsy McCune, posters.
KU Debaters Win 19 Out Of 20
NOV. 15
The affirmative teams from the University included Charles Hoffhaus, College junior; Jim Gurley and Tom Payne, freshmen; Orville Swander, journalism junior.
Eight University debaters won 19 of 20 debates at a triangle tournament with Kansas State college and Wichita university at Manhattan Nov. 13.
National Officer Will Visit SAI
Dorothy According to Kim Giffin, director of debate, Miss Garland was judged the best speaker.
On the negative team were Lee Turner, College junior; Guy Goodwin, sophomore; Sally Garland and Dorothy Hilbert, freshmen.
Miss Christine Springston, national second vice-president of Sigma Alpha Iota, will visit the local chapter of the music fraternity for women, Friday and Saturday.
Miss Springston has charge of establishment of new fraternity chapters and serves on the national executive board. At present she is on the faculty at the University of Redlands and San Diego State college.
Banker Endows Medical School Research Fund
Establishment of the Dixon Fagerberg fund for medical research for the University School of Medicine was announced today by Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
The fund, a "living endowment," was set up with a substantial initial gift to the K.U. Endowment association. The amount was not disclosed. It is to be used for any current medical research selected by a board of which Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, dean of the School of Medicine, will be chairman.
Dixon Fagerberg, the donor, is a native of Olsburg, Kansas, in Pottawatonie county, where his father operated a store and was active in the implement and grain business. Mr. Fagerberg has lived in Prescott, Ariz., since 1902. For 20 years he was a food broker and a wholesale grocer for another decade. More recently he has been engaged in investment banking.
Mr. Fagerberg had no previous connections with K.U. other than a niece, Verne Wagner, now Mrs. Howard B Bratton of Waco, Texas, who was graduated in 1931. He wrote that through the Kansas City Star he had learned of the progress being made in the K.U. medical school and wished to help further it.
school and wish to "Mr. Fagerberg's gift is most valuable in several respects." Dean Murphy said. "First it is of sufficient size and can be used now to give material impetus to a research project. He did not confine us to use of interest on the principal, which in these days does not support much research.
"Mr. Fagerberg also has allowed freedom of action in selecting the problem to be benefited by his aid. Grants from public agencies, which currently support most of our research, are earmarked and their use restricted."
Dean Murphy expressed the hope others would follow Mr. Fagerberg's example. "An investment in medical research promises no dollar return, but no other investment can return so much in the alleviation of human suffering and prolonging of life. The challenge of medicine is too great to be met alone by public agencies. Gifts by individuals such as Mr. Fagerberg's, which can be used immediately, speed the day of relief for more human beings."
University alumni will be contacted by letter in the campaign to raise the final $50,000 for the World War II memorial. The decision was reached in a meeting held Nov. 11 by the memorial association.
Letters To Alumni Will Seek $50,000
A bell founder from the Netherlands will be interviewed soon by the carillon committee to make a decision on the bells.
decision on the bells.
Those present at the meeting were Hugo T. Wedell and J. Wayne McCoy, Topeka; Edward Tanner and Homer F. Neville, Kansas City, Mo.; Carl V. Rice, Kansas City, Kan.; C. B. Holmes, Alton Thomas, and Fred Ellsworth, Lawrence; and Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
Truman Gives Alumnus Medal
Dr. Robert D. Coghill, 21, recently received the president's medal from President Truman for his wartime work in promoting the production of penicillin. Dr. Coghill is director of research for the Abbott laboratories, Chicago.
Walkout Ban Dies; Propose New Plan
By BOB NEWMAN
Fraternity pledges may walkout again, but the sororities don't want to. Joe McCoskrie, president of the Inter-fraternity council, said this morning that the executive committee of the council and L. C. Woodruff, dean of men, had drawn up a set of rules governing the new walkouts.
This new walkout plan will be presented to the Inter-fraternity
Alexander Will Speak Tonight
William Hardy Alexander will give the second lecture of the Humanities series at 8 p.m. today in Fraser theater. "The Classics and Survival Values" is the subject of his lecture.
Dr. Alexander, a naturalized citizen from Canada, is president-elect of the American Philological association. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and became its president in 1945.
On June 30, 1948, he completed 49 years of teaching and was retired by the University of California as professor emeritus.
Dr. Alexander graduated with first class honors in Classics from the University of Toronto in 1899. He received his master of arts degree one year later and his doctor of philosophy degree seven years later from the University of California. In 1933 he received a doctor of laws degree from the University of Alberta.
He taught at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Alberta from 1906-1938, and was dean of the faculty of arts at the latter university from 1936-1938. He became a professor of Latin at the University of California in 1938 and was chairman of the department from 1942-1948.
During the first world war, he served as commandant of the officer's training corps, University of Alberta, for two and one-half years. In 1917 he was a delegate to Washington.
Wisconsin Surveys Enrollment Drop
Mrs. Mark Toroxal, dean of women, University of Wisconsin, is gathering data on the enrollment of women in American colleges. She will try to determine the cause of the decrease in the enrollment of women.
women.
While the trend over the country is for decreased enrollment in women students the University has an increase of 46. There were 2263 last year and there are 2309 this year. The increase in women is in both the undergraduate and graduate classes. There are 2134 undergraduate women this year as compared with 2101 last year and 178 graduates as compared with 162 last year. Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women, could give no reason for the increase.
reason for the interest
The report by Mrs. Toroxal is expected to be completed some time in the spring.
The reports of the Washington office of education show there are 2,410,000 students in American colleges this year, 72,000 more than ever before. Only 1,122,000 of the total are veterans, 100,000 less than last year.
The increase in total enrollment this year was only 3 per cent while the increase last year was $12 \frac{1}{2} \%$ per cent.
$ ^{*} $ council, Monday, Nov. 22 for vote and will be published after that time.
"I feel sure," McCoskrie said, "that the regulations will be passed by the council since they have been approved by both the administration and representative fraternities."
On the other hand, the sororities have expressed a desire to leave things "just as they are."
Dean Woodruff expressed satisfaction with the new plan and added: "I'm pleased that the council is realizing its responsibilities in managing its own affairs in this connection."
Jane Ferrell, president of the Pan- hellenic council, said the new plan had been presented to a meeting of sorority presidents who in effect, said: "We don't want walkouts— leave it to the men."
"I feel, however, that the Interfraternity council has some very good ideas on the matter," she added.
Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women, said the girls had expressed the same opinion to her. Miss Habein thinks walkouts should be banned, unless they are kept under strict control.
Walkouts originally were banned by the council Oct. 1 by order of the administration, following overexuberant antics by the pledges of several fraternities and sororities.
US Route 40 Being Fixed
The construction project is at a point on the Blackwater river in Saline county. The new route will eliminate a section of highway which often has been closed because of high water.
Western Kansas football fans who plan to drive to attend the Kansas-Oklahoma game here Saturday will find U.S. highway No. 40 closed because of construction, the highway department reported today.
All motor car and truck traffic has been detoured at the junction of highway 40 and Kansas highway No. 13, and also at the junction of U.S. highways Nos. 40 and 65.
Highway department spokesmen said the new road probably would not be opened until early next summer. The detour was put into effect Monday.
Sigma Nu Barn Damaged By Fire
Fire destroyed part of the roof on a barn at the Sigma Nu fraternity house shortly before noon today.
Members of the fraternity fought the blaze with buckets of water and gunny sacks until two fire engines arrived and put out the fire. The job was completed by 12:15 p.m. It was estimated that about 50 square feet of the roof was destroyed.
Although fires in themselves are usually pretty important, it was a fireman who stole the show today. One of the smoke-eaters stuck his head through a hole in the roof to survey the damage. Undoubtedly mistaking his red helmet as a rebirth of the fire, an alert comrade played the hose on his head.