UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1943
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British Tanks Go Into Action In Palestine
At Lake Success the political and security committee of the United Nations general assembly convened for a last-minute debate on whether to scrap the U.N. partition plan for trusteeship as urged by the United States.
Jerusalem, April 28—(UP)—British tanks went into action today against Jewish forces of the Irgun Zvai Leumi which hammered their way into Jaffa, the big Arab city toct to Tel Aviv.
Dispatches from Cairo said Egypt would join the attack with her navy and 7,000 land troops. The Egyptian navy was reported ready to blockade the Palestine coast, preventing 30,000 Jews intered on Cyprus by the British from joining the battle.
Simultaneously, the swiftly-evacuating British pulled all except about 20 government employees out of Jerusalem. There was a report that British evacuation of the Holy City would be completed by May 5.
Two thousand Iraqi troops with tanks have moved into Trans-Jordan as part of a general Arab mobilization for a full-scale invasion of Palestine about May 15.
gumn Zvai Leumi fighters broke Arab defense lines in the northeast suburbs of Jaffa, and were pressing southward upon the port area, while Haganah troops drove from south of the city.
Other forces of the Arab armies are poised in Syria and Lebanon, waiting for the signal from King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan to launch the invasion.
the city.
An Arab defeat seemed probable, and some 60,000 civilians in the city were seeking to escape aboard ships in the harbor, and through the Jewish lines.
The biggest obstacle to U.N. action was the apparent decision of the United States not to commit American troops to the Holy Land if it means actually fighting Arabs or Jews. ___
Tells AWS Of Meeting
Betty van der Smissen, College junior, presented a report of the Associated Women Students regional conference at the A.W.S. house of representatives meeting Tuesday.
Miss van der Smissen was the University's A.W.S. representative at the conference held at the University of Washington at Seattle April 15 to 17. Thirty-six schools were represented by 70 delegates at the conference.
The articles of operation for the A.W.S. house of representatives were approved.
The topics discussed at the conference included the scope and enlargement of the A.W.S. program; the responsibility of A.W.S. leadership; orientation and integration; systems of finance, election, and activities; housing; and publicity.
Here's How To Win Student Friends
Students in Prof. Robert Stallman's English class were amused and confused Tuesday when a spry old gentleman in his middle sixties walked into the room and started to argue with Professor Stallman. The heckler was obviously getting a kick out of the disturbance.
It came about this way: Prof. Joseph Warren Beach, speaker at the final Humanities lecture, was searching the campus for Professor Stallman, who taught English at Minnesota last summer under Professor Beach, head of the department there. When he found that Professor Stallman was teaching a class he crashed the class and effectively disrupted a quiz. The students placed an unqualified stamp of approval on Professor Beach.
By Bibler
Little Man On Campus
Habein Advises Counselors To Be Student's First Friend At School
A friendly counselor makes the new student feel that she has a friend in her new home, Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women, said Tuesday night.
Miss Habein spoke to the Associated Women Students counselors for next fall on "The Place of Counseling." The counseling program, started last fall, is a project of the A.W.S. house of representatives.
"Counselors are for the purpose of making the new student feel more secure and less like a stranger at the University." Miss Habein said. "New students do not know of what college life consists and it is the duty of the counselors to help orient them."
people; and keeping in touch with her, after orientation week.
Miss Habein set forth the following as duties of a counselor: writing to the counselee during the summer; meeting her as soon as possible after her arrival at the University; taking her on a tour of the campus; providing her an opportunity to meet
"Very little academic failure is due to stupidity." Miss Habein added. "Students fail because they cannot cope with their problems. Counselors can play an important part in helping and advising them. It is often a great help to these students just to be able to tell someone their problems."
"It is not an easy job to be a counselor but it is very rewarding. You will meet some of your best friends through counseling," Miss Habein said.
University Daily Kansan telephones are good for something more than hot news stories and weddings. When a Sunflower father-to-be received notice today to take his wife to the hospital he called the University Daily Kansan.
"Give me a fast reporter," shouted the father. "My wife is having a baby."
Speech Finals To Be Tomorrow
Three women and five men from six organized houses will compete in the finals of the intramural demonstration speech contests at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Green hall.
The reporter made the trip to the hospital.
Having A Baby? Call The Kansan
A silver cup will be awarded the winner in the men's and women's division of the contest, according to Orville Roberts, instructor in speech. This is the second in a series of intramural speech contests sponsored by the Forensic league.
The women finalists are Doreen J. Wallace, Delta Delta Delta, and Mary L. Garton and Ruth W. Williams of Alpha Omicron Pl.
hands of Alpine.
The men are Thomas H. Steinle,
Kappa Sigma; Richard J. Bugler and
Arthur H. Fitch, Phi Kappa; Gene
B. Courtney, Phi Gamma Delta; and
Robert McGarry, Sigma Chi.
Medical Graduate Commits Suicide
Dr. Oliver M. Gilliland, '40 and '44, hanged himself in a Rochester, Mich., hospital room Monday. Worry over ill health was believed to be the reason for the suicide.
Born in Kansas City, Mo., he took his pre-medical and medical training at the University, receiving his A.B. and M.D. degrees. He served as a medical officer in the navy during World War II.
After his discharge he was resident physician at Winter General hospital in Topeka until five weeks ago, when doctors advised him to take the clinical test at Haven hospital in Rochester. A complete rest was advised at the time.
Clubs On The Campus
Must Make Resins Rugged, Winters Tells Chemical Engineers
Chemical engineers need to find practical uses for their product and must make synthetic resins more rugged, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers were told Tuesday by Dr. J. C. Winters of the Resinous Chemical Products corporation, Philadelphia.
Dr. Winters illustrated his topic, "Ton Exchange as Promoted by Synthetic Resins," with lantern slides of graphs and chemical reactions.
J. Y. Riedel, engineer for the Bethlehem Steel corporation in Kansas City, Mo., will give an illustrated talk on "Heat Treatment and Application of Tool Steels" to members of the student group of the American Society of Tool Engineers at 8:15 p.m. May 5 in Lindley auditorium.
Dr. B. S. Kline, professor of pathology at Western Reserve university, will demonstrate a new method for diagnosing syphilis to bacteriology students at 7 p.m. tomorrow in 417 Snow hall.
Mr. Riedel is a senior member of A.S.T.E. All interested engineers are invited. Student members of A.S.T.E may get applications for summer jobs at the meeting.
Two practical applications of the resins are the taking of copper ions from milk for an analytical evaluation, and the removal of inorganic ash to improve the purity of beet sugar. Dr. Winters said.
A.S.T.E. To Hear Engineer
Bacteriology Department
Occupational Therapy Club
Conditions in the Kansas state mental hospitals are "extremely bad," Dr. Edgar Warren, director of the division of mental hygiene, Kansas state board of health, told members of the Occupational Therapy club Tuesday.
At present only 4 per cent of the state's budget goes toward mental hospitals, Dr. Warren said.
Good feet and a willingness to work hard are two of the basic requirements for a professional home economist, members of the Home Economics club were told Tuesday.
Home Economics Club
Treat men like individuals instead of machines and the management problem will disappear. B. I. Wiand, personnel manager of the Vendo company of Kansas City, Mo., told members of the Society for the Advancement of Management Tuesday
Guest speakers were Janice Jones and Delores Farrell, 1947 graduates, from Kansas City, Mo.
S. A.M. members will make a field trip to Owens-Corning Fiberglass corporation tomorrow. They will meet at 1:15 p.m. behind Marvin hall.
SAM Hears Talk
Instruction in the four-leaf clover, a new square dance for the Square Dance club, will be given at 7 p.m. today in the recreation room of the Union.
Square Dance Club
Warren Moore, graduate student, will speak on the "boxing-in" process at a Mathematics club meeting at 4 p.m. today.
Mathematics Club
Candidates for next year's officers will be announced at the meeting, and voted on at the club's annual spring picnic, May 13.
Classical Club
James E. Seaver, assistant professor of history, will speak to the Classical club on the life of Julius Caesar at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in 206 Fraser. Interested students are invited.
New members are Robert A. Franklin, James A. Seelbinder, Thomas Alexander, Robert A. Coldsnow, Anderson W. Chandler, Robert B. York, George E. Hutton, Donald W. McDaniel, Clemeth A. Abercrombie, Edward C. Klewer.
Scabbard And Blade
Twenty-one men were initiated Tuesday into Scabbard and Blade, honorary military science fraternity. Members of the Kansas State college chapter performed the ceremony.
Thomas E. Franklin, Ralph R. Brock, Herbert F. Bucholtz, Jack A. Campbell, J. Glenn Hahn, Ira D. Jordan, Richard H. Lamb, Walter J. Michaels, Harold D. Nelson, Robert E. Stroud.
Plans for new members for next year were discussed Tuesday at a meeting of Gamma Alpha Chi, journalism sorority.
Gamma Alpha Chi
Rail Unions Set Unofficial Date Of Wage Strike
Chicago, April 28—(UP)—A union spokesman announced today that three operating rail unions had set May 11 as a date for a wage strike against the nation's railroads, but official confirmation of the date was held up. The government had arranged new negotiations in an effort to head off the walkout.
The unions and the railroads have agreed to meet tomorrow at 10 a.m. in Chicago with Chairman Frank P. Douglass of the national mediation board.
Mr. Douglass said he will fly to Chicago tonight to take personal command of the renewed negotiations. He said failure of the parties to reach agreement by themselves "represents a serious threat to the economy of the nation in that a stoppage of all rail transportation in the country may follow."
The railroads are not covered by he Taft-Hartley labor law, which permits the government to seek federal court injunctions to stop strikes hat might imperil the nation, health and safety.
A strike by the 150,000 key railroad employees could reach into every home and effect the lives of more than 140 million Americans. It would cut the lifelines of industry and commerce. If the strike continued, food shortages would develop, factories would close and millions would be thrown into idleness.
A strike will come at, a difficult time for many industries, which have been hit by the recent soft coal strike. Some of them, including the automotive industry, have not yet recovered from the effects of the coal walkout.
in the union members leave their obs as scheduled, it will be the nation's second big rail strike in 26 years. Just two years ago, in May, 946, a nationwide rail strike paralyzed the nation for two days.
"It is the duty of every citizen to vote at every election. It is also a responsibility of the citizen to offer himself for public office. Every person should regard a public office as one of the highest honors of the citizen."
Encino, Cal., April 28—(UP)—Tom Breneman, 46, master of ceremonies of radio's "Breakfast in Hollywood." dropped dead today at his home an hour before his daily program was to go on the air.
Tom Breneman Dies From Heart Attack
Rabbi Mayerberg is associated with the non-partisan Citizen's association, whose candidates head the present Kansas City, Mo., administration. He spoke on "Responsible Citizenship" and cited the Pendergast machine as an example of having political parties in city governments.
More than 600 persons crowded outside his restaurant in Hollywood, waiting for the program and unaware of his death. The program was cancelled.
"Any party which remains in power very long becomes corrupt through favoritism and patronage; it has to be corrupt to stay in power." Rabbi Mayerberg said. "However, we should have national parties to crystallize ideas and philosophies and to present the men to follow them."
There is no place for party politics in any city or county government, Rabbi Samuel Mayerberg said Tuesday at a Y.M.C.A. forum.
Rabbi Raps City Parties
A heart attack is believed to have caused his death.