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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1948
Greeks Accuse Cominform Of Polk Murder
Salonika, Oct. 18-(UP)-Greek government officials said today that one of four Leftists charged with the murder of American correspondent George Polk had confessed that Polk was killed on orders of the Cominform in an involved plot to halt American aid to Greece.
Polk, member of a three-man commission being sent to Greece by an American newspapermen's committee investigating the case, said he still plans to press the inquiry into the slaying of his brother whose body was found in Salonika bay the past May.
According to the Greek announcement, Polk was shot May 8 in a rowboat in Salonika bay while under the impression his Communist companions were taking him into Communist lines to interview the guerrilla leader, Gen. Markos Vafades. His body was discovered floating in the bay on May 16.
two Greek cabinet ministers issued a special announcement saying that a Leftist Greek newspaperman, his mother and two fugitive Communists had been charged with the murder. Their trial will take place in two months.
In Cambridge, Mass., Harvard sophomore William R. Polk, 19, said today re is "a little dubious" about the Greek government's charges against four persons in the slaying of his brother, George Polk.
"I'm a little dubious because one time before the Greek government came out with specific allegations and later withdrew them."
"It's not that I doubt the Greek government's finding," he said when informed that four Communists had been accused in the murder. "But I still think the case needs an impartial investigation, and I don't think the Greek government is impartial.
The plot, the government said, was to disperse the present Greek administration by planting Polk's papers in the possession of police and thus raise a public outey in the United States which would halt American aid to Greece.
Language Instructor To Talk On Swedish Life
A lecture in Swedish life and customs will be given by Per-Hugo Sjogren, instructor in German and Swedish, at the Swedish club meeting at 5 p.m. tomorrow in 502 Fraser.
Mr. Sijogren will lead the group in Swedish songs after the lecture.
The purpose of the Swedish club is to study Sweden's history, culture and people.
Episcopal Club Installs President
Victor Martin, Jr., engineering junior, was installed as president of the Episcopal college club Sunday.
Other officers installed were: Nancy Elisabeth Sandehn, College senior, treasurer; and Boyd Lyle Latimer, junior, student religious council member.
Martin appointed Donald Jackson, College senior, as program chairman, and Joan Eson, junior, as food chairman for the Sunday suppers.
Sunflower Gets FHA Checks
About $40,000 in checks was mailed to state and local taxing units Oct. 12, by the Federal Public Housing administration, John A. La Monica, Sunflower Housing manager, said today. These amounts were set after local units consulted with the Chicago regional office of the F.H.A. Taxes were paid by the Federal Public Housing administration to Lexington township in Johnson county, the DeSoto-Sunflower school district, Johnson county, and the state of Kansas.
The amounts paid were: $4,500.63 to Virgil Ellis, Trustee of Lexington township Johnson county; $14,393.32 to T. A. Schmidt, treasurer of the DeSoto-Sunflower school district; $2,018.92 to Richard T. Sadley, state treasurer; and $18,387.67 to X. O Meyer, Johnson county treasurer These amounts approximate full property taxes and are full settlement of the government obligations
Sunflower was built in 1943 to house immigrant workers for the Sunflower Ordnance works. The original project had 813 family dwelling units. In 1944 and 1945 two additions were built. These additions made a total of 1,493 units. Since the war, Sunflower has been used as emergency housing for veterans and their families.
About 876 veterans attend the University, 135 attend schools in Kansas City, 102 families are military personnel stationed in Ft. Leavenworth, Olathe, and Kansas City; and about 350 veterans are employed in various industries in the Kansas City area. The remaining 15 families are employed by the Sunflower Ordnance works. Ninety-nine per cent of the houses are occupied by veterans, Mr. LaMonica said.
Will Speak To Pre-Nurses
Mrs. Elma Stauffer, head nurse of the University Health service, will speak to members of the Pre-Nursing club at 4 p.m. Wednesday in Fraser dining room.
120 High School Students Attend Debate Institute
Speeches, debates, discussions and a football game high-lighted the week-end for 120 Kansas high school debaters here for the 12th annual debate institute.
They heard Dr. R. M. Davis, professor of law speak Oct. 16 on "World Government." Dr. Chesney Hill, professor of political science at the University of Missouri, spoke on "Pre- $ \textcircled{4} $
versity of Missouri school paring for the Debate." The debaters also saw the Shawnee Mission-Lawrence football game at Haskell stadium as guests of the Liberty Memorial High school.
On Oct. 17, they heard E. C. Buehler, professor of speech, say that the "Ten Commandments of Debate" are know plenty; settle on crucial issues; be a good packer (get the most out of words); speak the language of the tongue, not the pen; build a base from which to operate; keep your debate in a state of flux; make your authorities speak; don't be afraid of a clash; get your opponent to fight in your own back yard; and attack the argument of your adversary, not your adversary.
Dr. Vernon Nash, vice-president of the United World Federalists, was to speak on "World Government," but weather conditions prevented his arrival by plane. Dr. Hill presented a rebuttal to the argument for world government.
"There are four groups in the world today that are paving the way for war," he claimed. "They are classical Communists, the fatalists, the militarists, and the world federalists."
"The classical Communists don't believe in any government. How can you get them to accept a world government? How do you expect to work for peace if the men through whom you work are of a military mind? If you advance the idea of a world government, ask yourselves, how is it to levy taxes? How can it take action against a mob of German-hating Poles? How can it take action upon the individual as the government of the U.S. can do with us?"
Kansas Politics Liven Up In All Sectors
A sound car cruised Topeka streets today under protection of a district court restraining order, telling of a Kansans-for-Wallace meeting toight.
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It will be the first major public activity in behalf of the third party presidential candidate in some time.
District Judge C. A. Magaw issued the restraining order at the request of Topeka members of the Progressive party after city officials had denied the group permission to use the sound truck.
Charles P. Howard of Des Moines, who was the keynote speaker at the Progressive party's founding convention in Philadelphia, will give the principal address.
On the state political front, candidates launched into the semi-final week of the campaign.
Democratic Nominee Randolph Carpenter began a tour of east and southeast Kansas at Burlingame. He will give a major address tonight at Chanute.
Gov. Frank Carlson, the G.O.P.nominee asking re-election, was in Kansas City today. It was Kansas day at the American Royal. The rest of the week will find the governor campaigning in the eastern half of the state, from the Oklahoma to the Nebraska borders.
Opinion Split On Free Beer
The tempest over free beer on Wednesday, Nov. 3 if the repeal amendment carries spread to Lawrence today.
A poll of taverns resulted in three answers of "yes," three of "no," and five of "no comment." One man was definite in his opposition to the plan. "I think the original proposal is a disgrace to legalized beer dealers," he said.
Leo W. Mulloy, executive secretary of the Kansas Legal control council, a pro-repeal organization, denied that the council had sponsored the "free beers" and prizes totaling $925 to the dealers who showed the most repeal votes.
Hurst Majors, chairman of the Riley County United Dry forces, said Mr. Mulloy was right in denying the sponsorship of "free beers," but charged that the council had intended to give the cash prizes.
GE Science Show In Hoch Dec. 10
Donald G. Wilson, chairman of the electrical engineering department who is in charge of arrangements for the exhibition, said that the demonstrations in the show seem magical, but many of the things now in demonstration form are forecasts of things that will come into everyday use."
The General Electric corporation's "House of Magic" show will be presented in Hoch auditorium at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 10.
The demonstrations were first assemble for the World's Fair in 1933 and have since been shown over Canada and the United States.
'Hamlet's' King Has Appendicitis
No admission will be charged.
Herk Harvey, who was cast as King Claudius for the all-student production of "Hamlet" has been operated on for appendicitis. He is at Watkins hospital.
This leaves "Hamlet" without a king. Allen Crafton, professor of speech and drama, said he doesn't know if try-outs will be held for a new king or if the directors will wait for Harvey's recovery.
There Was A Boy Who Had A Boy
Hollywood, Oct. 18—(UP)—Eden Alhbez, bearded composer of the song "Nature Boy," and his wife Anna said today they were adjusting their "natural" way of life to that of their week-old son, Tatha Om.
"Anna will have to sleep indoors now," Mr. Abhze explained, "but I still sleep out under the trees. I have lived the nature way for five years, and I'm not comfortable in a house."
Berlin Explosion Jars U.S. Plane
Berlin, Oct. 8—(UP)—U.S. Air Force authorities授出 officially that an American C-54 plane flying the Berlin airlift run was "severely shaken" by a ground explosion in the Russian zone of Germany today.
Lt. Raymond Miller, pilot of the plane, told the American Military government's air branch that his four-engined plane had not been shaken by anti-aircraft fire as first was reported.
British authorities had said that Miller sent a radio message saying that anti-aircraft fire burst near his ship.
Miller just had taken off from Gatow airfield, in the British sector of Berlin, and was flying at 2,000 feet along the corridor leading over the Russian zone to the western zones of Germany when the explosion occurred in the Soviet area a short distance from Berlin. It was not clear what caused the explosion.
miner landed his plane at Fassburg airfield, in the British zone of western Germany, and was interviewed by authorities there.
To Have Booth In Wichita Show
The University research foundation will have a booth at the Kansas manufacturers show in Wichita tomorrow. Clarence Gr$\theta$laus, research chemist, and Morris Replitz, research associate, are in charge of the displays.
Dr. Grothaus will explain the exhibits in the plastics laboratory. He will make small key chain holders from plastic. There will be an apparatus for making chemicals from natural gas. Billy G. Schafer, '48, will make patterns on the potters wheel.
Literature from the Geological Survey and the bureau of business research will be distributed at the show. The show will be open to the public until Sunday.
Austin Says West To Re-arm While Curtain Stays
Paris, Oct. 18—(UP)—Warren Austin, U.S. delegate to the United Nations, warned Russia today that America will not give up the atomic bomb and the entire Western world will continue to rearm so long as the Communist states live in their "secret world" behind the Iron Curtain.
Speaking on atomic energy in the political committee, Austin charged that the Soviet proposal for simultaneous destruction of the American atomic bomb stockpile and creation of an international atomic control system was a "maneuver."
It was designed, he said, to destroy America's bombs before-"and probably a long while before"-the rest of the world knows whether Russia has such a weapon.
"The United States does not intend to give up its atomic weapons except under a system of control sufficiently effective to guarantee that other nations do not have and cannot secure these weapons." Austin said.
Russia's Jacob Malik answer immediately but steered clear of Austin's charges about the Iron Curtain.
He confined himself to the usual Soviet charge that the Soviets had made a major concession. He accused the U.S. and Britain of engaging in a "conspiracy of silence" on the Soviet proposal.
Malik said the American atomic plan did not mean international control "but uncontrolled ownership and management of world production and exploitation of atomic energy by American monopolies."
Austin again continued the Anglo-American attack on Soviet secrecy and the Iron Curtain and warned there can be no security while the Russians refuse to "participate in the world community on a cooperative basis."
"The Communist states have set up a closed system and over a large area of the world have drawn an Iron Curtain behind which things go on in secret, things of which the rest of the world is properly suspicious," the American delegate said. He added:
"So long as the Communist continue this position, effective international control of atomic energy will be impossible."
Hitt Leaves For Vacation
James K. Hitt, registrar, left day on a two week vacation. Miss Mae Rublee, assistant registrar, is in charge of the office during his absence.
It Seems To Be A Job To Get A Fraternity Going
Two new fraternities have been organized and another has been re-activated at the University. The new chapters are Phi Kappa Tau and Phi Kappa Sigma. The re-activated chapter is the Kansas chapter of Acacia.
Then there was the problem of starting the group. Phi Kappa Tau and Acacia's were assisted by traveling secretaries. The original impetus for Phi Kappa Sigma was supplied by six men who contacted the alumni in the area and the national headquarters and then formed a local fraternity which later became the colony.
ting a new chapter or re-activating an old chapter of a frater-
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Starting a new chapter or re nity is not easy as members of all three groups will testify. Each of the three fraternities had members returning as early as Sept. 2 to get the respective house ready for rush week.
Then arose the problem of finding suitable quarters. Zoning regulations of the city and the lack of large houses for sale placed a big obstacle in the way of operating a house. Disillusionment and setbacks confronted the groups from the start.
Alan Pickering, president of Phi
Kappa Tau, took a little brighter view of the struggle. "The unusual thing with us is that we have had virtually no trouble since we started." he said.
Bill Wilson, president of Acacia,
said. "The minute we would take the
wallpaper off the ceilings, the ceiling plaster would fall on us.
Not only that but we had to go
over to the Missouri chapter and
retrieve the furniture which our
chapter had before the war."
The president of Phi Kappa
igma, Tom Alexander, added, "I do
know whether our problems were
any worse than anyone else but we
tore out partitions, put in new
plumbing, painted, papered, sanded
floors, and did a hundred other
things. It was 18 to 20 hours a day
every day for two weeks preceding
rush week."