University Daily Kansan
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
Lawrence, Kansas
Roy A. Roberts Will 'Chat' At Honors Meeting
Roy Allison Roberts, '08, president and general manager of the Kansas City Star, will speak at the University Honors convocation tomorrow at 9:20 a.m. in Hoch auditorium. His talk will be "An Informal Chat About The Future."
Mr. Roberts has been with the Kansas City Star since 1908. From 1915 to 1928 he was Washington correspondent for the Star. He has covered every national political convention since 1912.
8 o'clock classes 8 to 8:30 a.m.
9 o'clock classes 8:40 to 9:10 a.m.
Convection 9:20 to 10:30 a.m.
10 o'clock classes 10:40 to 11:10 a.m.
11 o'clock classes 11:20 to 11:50 a.m.
12 o'clock classes noon to 12:50 p.m.
He lectured at a University convoction May 4, 1934 on "Freedom of the News." Time magazine recently featured him as "cover boy."
Preceding the address, Chancellor Deane W. Malott will present honors and awards for the 1947-48 school year.
Following the talk by Mr. Roberts the audience will sing the Crimson and the Blue. Arthur Ruppenthal, head cheer leader, will close the convocation by leading the group in the Rock Chalk yell.
Engineers Elect Council
William R. Gibbs, engineering junior, was elected president of the Engineering council May 7 in a closely contested race. He had a 15-vote margin over his nearest opponent.
Other officers who will head the council next semester are Charles R. Freeberg, engineering junior, vice-president, and Dorothy Quirk, engineering freshman, secretary-treasurer.
Representatives elected to represent the engineering classes are Winton L. Studt, senior; Robert R. Thayer, junior; and Elton B. Noble sophomore. The freshman representative will be elected in September.
Departmental representatives are Harley L. Tracy, architectural; Glenn C. Gray, civil; John R. Sacks, mining and metallurgical; David B. Thompson, engineering physics; Leonard M. Rickards, petroleum; John C. Brizendine, aeronautical; Robert L. Lindsay, electrical; Lawrence L. Gore, chemical; and Richard W. Hartzler, mechanical.
Engineering Frat Will Initiate 19
Nineteen new members will be infilated into Pi Tau Sigma, national honor mechanical engineering fraternity, at its annual banquet at 6:15 p.m. Thursday in the English room of the Union.
Max Dreeden, assistant professor of physics will speak on the relation between physics and engineering.
Students to be initiated are Thurston Cowgill, Dick Dickey, David J. Foley, Chester J. Frazier, Chester D. Hall, John R. Harris, Brownell W. Landes, Hugh S. McClelland, James V. Meredith, Normal W. Neaderhiser, James E. Oram.
Bruce R. Pennington, Arthur R. Puffinbarger, Lee G. Celden, Robert E. Sterrett, Jack P. Stovall, Charles R. Svoboda, Arthur R. Thompson, and Clayton W. Williams.
ROY A. ROBERTS
Students Attend Annual Banquet
About 75 students attended the Union-sponsored presidents' breakfast Saturday in the Union cafeteria.
Jack Schreiber, master of ceremonies, introduced the guests. They were Miss Martha Peterson, assistant dean of women; Willis L. Tompkins, assistant dean of men; Hermina Zipple, director of the Union; Evans Jay Francis, Union Activities president; Doris Jane Tihen, Union Activities secretary; Leland G. Norris, College freshman; and LuAnne Powell, former Union Activities president.
A preview of "College Daze" was given by several members of the cast. Mildred Ann Hogue, fine arts sophomore, and Dean W. Frazier College junior, sang "Come Along Baby" and "When You're Near." Norma Jean Guthrie, fine arts freshman, and Dargan Montgomery, College sophomore, also sang.
Bill P. Ogg, College junior, and Jack Moorhead, freshman, sang "I Got That Old Look From Seeing That New Look." The duets were accompanied on the piano by John S. Nichols, business senior. All of the songs were from the show, "College Daze."
Business School Elects, Listens, And Plays Ball
Richard A. Yaple was elected president of the Business School association in the voting May 7, along with the entire slate of the Commerce party.
Yaple received 61 votes and his opponent, Charles M. Wardin, received 39. Other officers elected were Ajas E. K laer, vice-president; Maribah L. Barrett, secretary; and Park C. Pennington, treasurer. All are business juniors.
In addition to the election, Business school day featured guest speakers, the student-faculty baseball game, and a picnic.
R. Hugh Uhlmann, vice-president of the Midland Flour Milling company and a director of the Kansas City Board of Trade described operations of the grain exchange.
"The worst handicaps in the grain market," he said, "are the get-rich-quick amateur buyers who cause abnormal fluctuations in the market. I don't see why these overnight grain dealers think they can predict the market when experts often fail."
He defended the rather unpopular speculative element in the markets on the grounds that prices are fixed by the law of supply and demand and not by members of the board of trade as some people believe.
F. S. Nicklas, representative of the International Business Machines corporation, said that "In the census of 1880, it took ten years to compile the information because the machines needed were not available."
He predicted that all future accountants will have to know machine accounting, which is, he said, "Merely the placing of adequate tools in the hands of accountants to eliminate as much as possible the human error."
In the afternoon baseball game, the faculty team, billed as the "K. U. Flunkers," nosed out the senior team by a score of 10-9. The faculty team made six runs in the first inning, an advantage the students were never able to overcome.
WEATHER
Kansas—Cloudy and cooler with occasional showers east today. Partly cloudy and cooler east tonight. Tomorrow partly cloudy and cool High today near 50 extreme north to upper 50's south. Low tonight 35-43.
'College Daze' Chorus
DANCING CHORUS left to right: Rita Hartwell, Virginia Gard, Joan Happy, Dick Blasdel, Al Dougherty, Virginia Brown, Betty Boiling, Jeanne Peterson, Carl Hoskins, Edith Malott and Fran Bernard.
Truman Seizes Rails As Strike Threatens
Walkout Set For 6 AM Tomorrow As Brotherhoods Remain Silent
Washington, May 10—(UP)—President Truman at 11 a.m. today seized the railroads of the nation and called on every railroad worker to cooperate with the government by remaining on duty.
Student Musical Numbers To Be Presented Today
The President acted as representatives of the three brotherhoods which have called a strike for 6 a.m. tomorrow and representatives of
Thirteen original musical compositions by members of the School of Fine Arts will be presented at 8 p.m. today in Frank Strong auditorium. The compositions are by students of Laurel E. Anderson, professor of organ and piano.
The contemporary music string quartet will interpret compositions by Jack Stephenson, Chester Vincent Bleecker, and Richard Simon, graduate students. The quartet includes W. Thomas-Marroco, first violin, Myron McNown, second violin, Bleecker, viola, and Maurice Pollom, violoncello.
Six students have prepared musical scores for poems. They are 'Escape' (Elinor Wylie) by Beth Bell, College senior; "This Is My Beloved" (Walter Benton), Wayne Ruppenthal, graduate student; "Perfect Peace" (Augusta Larned), Richard Simon, graduate student; "Sonnet" (Santayana), Mary L Stryker, College senior; "Velvet Shoes" (Elinor Wylie), Horace Edmons, graduate student, and "Ece Puer" (James Joyce), Robert MacKinnon, fine arts junior. Loraine Mai, soprano, will sing. Maxine Dunkleberg, pianist, will play.
Stek has also composed a sonata for trumpet and piano, "Allegro Energico," "Scherzand," and "Chorale." It will be played by Leo Horaceck, trumpet, and Melvin Zack, piano.
Horace Edmonds has prepared a piano solo suite for children, "The Piper," "Sorrow," "Lullaby," and "Gaiety." Frank White, fine arts sophomore will play.
MacKinnon has written a flute obligato for "Carol" (Anonymous) which will be interpreted by Loraine Mai, soprano, and Marcus Hahn, flutist, accompanied by Maxine Dunkleberg.
A trio for piano, violin, and violoncelo written by Margaret Dunn, former fine arts faculty member, will be played by Marian Jersild, piano, W. Thomas Marroco, violin, and Raymond Stuhl, violoncelo.
'Daze' Tickets Are Being Sold Now
Tickets for "College Daze," all student musical revue, are on sale in the rotunda of Frank Strong hall, at the business office, and at a booth in the Union.
Admission to the musical, which will be presented at 8:20 p.m. Wednesday in Hoch auditorium, is 75 cents a person.
Members of the cast are selling tickets personally, and there are special representatives for each organized house on the campus. Tickets are also on sale to the Lawrence population downtown.
Tickets are also on sale to the Lawrence population downtown.
◦ management continued fruitless dis-
cussions at the White House.
Mr. Truman directed Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall to operate the lines in the name of the government.
At about the time the executive order was issued, representatives of the three brotherhoods left the White House, declining to say whether their members would accede to the president's work request.
Government officials, however, believed the three unions later would instruct their members to keep on the job. The government might take court action against them if they went ahead with the strike.
The union leaders left their latest conference with John R. Steelman, assistant to the president, at 11:05 a.m. The conference apparently had not broken down completely. Alvanley Johnston, head of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, said the union group would return to the White House at 12:30 p.m.
The president's seizure order was effectively immediately.
Mr. Truman, in a statement accompanying the order, warned that "a strike on our railroads would be a nationwide tragedy, with worldwide repercussions."
The executive order provided that present wages and conditions of employment would continue in effect while the railroads are under army operation.
Mr. Truman stated that since the three brothershoods had refused to accept the recommendations of an emergency board, a situation had developed which made government seizure "imperative for the protection of our citizens."
Mr. Truman acted under a 1916 law giving the government power to seize and operate railroads in time of war emergency.
Government officials asserted confidence from the first that the seizure maneuver would prevent the strike. In Chicago, A.F.L. President William Green said he believed the A.F.L. union involved, the switchmen, would stay on their jobs. The other unions involved are the engineers and firemen, both independent brotherhoods.
The first reaction of high officials of the engineers' brotherhood in Chicago, New York, and Pittsburgh had been that the strike would go on as planned unless the top union leaders here canceled it.
As the nation entered one of its most critical weeks of labor unrest in history the government was also attempting to prevent a Chrysler automobile strike set for Wednesday, settle the 55-day-old packinghouse workers strike, and end the Boeing aircraft strike that has tied up an important portion of the country's military and commercial plane production.
Meanwhile John L. Lewis asked hard coal operators today to begin negotiations with his United Mine Workers May 20. Mr. Lewis did not mention union demands, but in a letter to the mine owners he said he wanted negotiations completed by July 10.
Two College Students In Accident Near Shawnee
George D. Clay, College sophomore drove into the rear of a car on state highway 10 near Shawnee, May 7. Richard Oberhelman, College freshman, was riding with Clay. Neither of the students was hurt.