28, 1948
University Daily Kansan
46th Year No. 9
Wednesday, Sept. 29, 1948
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Local Board Classifies Men In Five Groups
Classification of men registered for selective service was started Monday by the Lawrence draft board. Cards indicating the classification of registrants for military service will be mailed as soon as the questionnaires are processed.
Registrants will come under one of five main classes, each of which has one or more sub-divisions as follows:
Class I
Men have ten days to complete and return questionnaires after receipt. The last of these were mailed last Wednesday.
I-B—Conscientiest objector available for non-combat service only.
I-A-Available for military service.
I—C—Member of the armed forces,
career, geodetic survey, or public
health.
Class II
I-D—Member of reserve components or students taking military service.
Class III
II-C-Deferred because of employment in agriculture.
II-A-Deferred because of civilian employment not including agriculture.
Class IV
III-A—Deferred because of dependents.
IV-B-Official deferred by law.
-IV-A—Registrant who has completed military service; or is sole surviving soft.
IV-D—Minister of religion or divinity students.
IV-E—Conscientious objector opposed to both combatant and non-combatant military service.
IV-F—Physically, mentally, or morally unfit.
Class V
V-A- Registrant over the age of liability for military service.
Deferments are for one year or less. Cards sent to registrants receiving deferments will carry the date the postponement expires.
Nine Will Attend Government Study
Two students and seven members of the University faculty will attend the semi-annual meeting of the Kansas Conference on Government at Topeka Saturday. The meetings bring together representatives of Kansas colleges and universities with officials of city, state, and local governments to exchange information on governmental matters. This will be the seventh meeting of the group.
Those attending from the University will be: James Bibb, graduate student; Harold Horn, graduate student; Dr. Ethan P. Allen, director of the bureau of government research; Jack McKay, research assistant in the bureau of government research; Prof. J. W. Drury, instructor in political science; Dr. George B. Smith, dean of the School of Education; Dr. E. O. Stene, associate professor of political science; Esther E. Twente, professor of social work; and Dr. J. D. Morgan, assistant professor of economics.
Pershing Rifles Will Meet
The Pershing Hiles will meet for the first time this semester at 4 p.m. Thursday in the Military Science building. The group is part of a national organization composed of selected R.O.T.C. members who spend one extra hour a week at drill. Capt. Grant Vonderschmidt, College junior, will be in charge of the meeting.
Flyers On The Air Lift Are Just Winged Coalmen
Washington, Sept. 29—(UP)—I flew into blockaded Berlin recently on a sack of coal so precious that even the dust is collected.
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Berliners pay about $15 a ton for the fuel the U.S. air force is flying to them from the American and British zones of Germany.
But the U.S. taxpayer foots the bill for flying it in. So far this has come
to about $175 a ton. At this rate, and with winter at hand, every spoonful is guarded.
When the C-54's unload their 10-
ton cargoes at Templehof and Gatow
airports, workers sweep up the dust
and spillings, not only in the cargo
compartments, but off the ground
as well.
Plane commanders who three months ago were running plush military air transport service ships on routes all over the world now are airborne coalmen.
The sweepings add up to many pounds a day.
"It has taken all the glamour out of flying," one pilot complained, good-naturedly.
Coal comes up the Rhine by barge and is unloaded at Frankfurt, in the American zone of Germany. There, it is painstakingly loaded by hand into G. I. duffel bags.
The bags cost $2.25 each.
The bags cost $10. Displaced persons do the packing. They put an empty bag on the scales, then open a chute above until the scales register exactly 110 pounds.
Then the bag is removed, opened, and the scale is tipped to pour in the coal. Bags are stacked in railroad cars then and are hauled to Rhine-Main airfield.
Here more D.P.'s shift the load to trailers, in lots that total exactly 10 tons. As the planes return empty from Berlin, trailers are backed to their cargo doors even before the engines stop turning.
Three committee chairmen were appointed Tuesday night at the first meeting of the Scabbard and Blade, national honorary military society.
Forty minutes after landing, each plane takes to the air again. Western air corridors to the blockaded city are so full, night and day, that no other planes normally can get in.
Mortar Board To Entertain
The appointees are Walter J. Michaels, engineering junior, social committee; Harold D. Nelson, journalism senior, professional committee, and Edward C. Klewler, College junior, membership committee.
Advisors for the current school year are Miss Anna McCracken, instructor in correspondence study, Mrs. J. H. Nelson, wife of the dean of the Graduate school, and Miss Maude Elliott, professor of Romance languages.
Mortar Board also scheduled two visits to Kansas City. On Oct. 29 they will hear Lauritz Melchior, singer, and in December the society will hear Vladimir Horowitz, pianist.
"All former members of the organization, and alumni who were members are invited to Scabbard and Blade meetings," said Robert A. Coldsnow, president of the organization.
A party for all junior women on the honor roll will be given by Mortar Board Thursday. Nov. 4.
Committee members planning the party are Dorothy Scroggy, Harriet Harlow and Jeanne Cooper, program; LuAnne Powell and Dorothy James, invitation; Margaret Meeks and Jan Williams, recreation; Dorothy James and Margaret Meeks, honor roll lists; Joann Ruese and Jane Ferrel, refreshments.
Appoint Chairmen At ROTC Meeting
Quill Club Has Contest
The University Quill club is sponsoring a writing contest open to all students, Carolyn Campbell, president of the club, announced today. The winning entries will be eligible for cash prizes and for memberships in the Quill club. Separate divisional awards will be given for both short stories and poems.
Poems may be any length. Short stories must be less than 5,000 words. Deadline for manuscripts is Oct. 29. All work should be turned in to Prof. Ray West of the department of English at 211 Fraser hall. The winning entries will be published in the next edition of Trend, the Quill club magazine.
The first meeting of Quill club for the fall semester will be held tonight in the Wilcox museum, Fraser hall. Miss Campbell urges all members to attend and bring manuscripts. The program will include a discussion of the Kansas writer's conference held on the campus this summer.
Scarab Smoker Tonight
New architectural students will meet the faculty and other students of the architectural department at a smoker in the Kansas room of the Union, building at 7:30 tonight The smoker is sponsored by Scarab, national honorary architectural fraternity.
Kansas- Partly cloudy today, tonight and Thursday. A little warmer Thursday. High today near 80. Low tonight in the 50's.
WEATHER
KU Post Office Announces Hours
University post office hours will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 8 to 11:30 a.m. Saturdays.
The post office, a branch of the Lawrence office, handles money orders, stamps, insurance, registered mail, and C.O.D. service. Mail is sent out at 1 and 5 p.m. each day to the Lawrence post office.
Three carriers are employed at the University office. They carry mail twice each day to the University and nearby residences.
Reds Keep Up Oral Blasts
Paris, Sept. 29—(UP)—Ukrainian Delegate Dimitri Manulsky accused the United States today of splitting Germany and Europe in two in order to enslave them more easily.
Delegate Manuilsky, one of the original Bolshevik revolutionaries, followed Yugoslav Delegate Eduard Kardelj to the rostrum in the final day of general debate in the United Nations general assembly.
Mr. Kardeli, in a speech that fervently supported Soviet policy design ex-communicating with nonfirmous to the West of trying to wreck the United Nations.
He made these complaints against the United States:
1. Creation and development of Western Germany as an alleged military and economic base of the U.S. in Western Europe.
2. Maintaining armies on territories of Allied and other countries.
3. "Machinations" in the near East.
4. "Re-establishment of Japan as an anti-Soviet base."
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5. Non-fulfillment of peace treaties.
6. Organization of a vast system of military bases.
7. Refusal to consider disarmament and prohibition of atomic energy as a means of waging war.
Only the Soviet bloc applauded when he finished.
"It's a new kind of strategy—we won't really get started until after the first 11 plays."
Russian Planes Buzz US Ships On Berlin Run
Berlin, Sept. 29—(UP) — Russian fighter planes buzzed two American transports on the Berlin "milk run" today, and U.S. authorities promptly demanded that responsible Soviet authorities take "immediate and direct measures" to stop such harassing tactics.
A vigorous written protest was filed with Russian authorities only four hours after a number of Russian Yak fighters made repeated offensive passes at two heavily loaded American C-54 transports, coming within 100 feet or less of the four-engined planes.
U. S. officials said at least five Yaks, single-engined fighters of which the Russians have a great number, were involved in buzzer the American planes as they neared Berlin with supplies or the eastern part of Germany,殴uring the Soviet surface blockade which now has lasted 102 days.
The Russian fighters repeatedly roared in as if to attack the transports, but they did not open fire, and they "peeled off" after approaching 100 feet of the American planes.
The impression given was that of a group of dare-devil pilots sharpening their offensive tactics by practice on the U.S. planes.
Official reports indicated that the dangerous maneuvers were one of the gravest of a number of incidents in which Russian planes have sought to harry the ferry service on which about 2,500,000 persons in the American, British and French sectors of Berlin depend.
The strong wording of the American protest also suggested that the Russian action was being taken more obviously than any previous incident.
Signed by senior air controller Capt. V. H. Gookin, the U. S. protest charged that previous verbal protests to Soviet authorities against such dangerous practices had accomplished nothing.
K-Club To Wear Sweaters Fridays
"There are too many boys on the campus wishing they had earned K sweaters and too many proud owners of K sweaters letting the moths get the best of their," William R. "Red" Hogan said Tuesday, Hogan, president of the K-Club, made the statement after members of the club voted to wear their sweaters on Fridays. He added that sweaters should be worn at all meetings.
A committee was appointed to plan the showing of films of K.U.K.'s out of town games to the student body. The club will also take active part in the nightshirt parade Friday night.
Myron J. Enns, College sophomore, was elected vice-president to succeed Harold W. Moore. Dr.E.R. Elbel, director of the veterans bureau was unanimously elected faculty representative for a two year term. The first and third Tuesdays of each month were selected as regular meeting dates.
Hans Schwieger Visits Campus
Hans Schwieger. newly chosen conductor of the Kansas City Phil-harmonic orchestra and R. H. Wangerin, manager of the orchestra, visited the University Tuesday.
A luncheon at the Union was arranged by Dean D. M. Swarthout for the visitors. Guests included Chancellor Deane W. Malott, the heads of the departments in music, and teachers of string instruments.