UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1948
Italy Requests Chance To Join European Union
Rome, April 22—(UP)—Premier Alcide De Gaperi, granted indisputable control over Italy's new five-year parliament by the recent announcement today that Italy has asked to join the Western European union against communism.
Whitehall sources in London said immediately that Italy's application will be considered at Saturday's meeting of the Western European Union Council of Ambassadors in London.
London. It is the first nation to request admission to the European union since it was formed at Brussels in March. Original members are 'Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
contain the same time military headquarters in Milan reported that 3,000 partisans who assembled in the Appennine hills south of the Po river in the Pavia region are demobilizing and returning to their homes.
Premier De Gasperi's announcement places Italy side by side with the United States, Britain, and France in the global "cold war" of communism versus democracy.
the partisans assembled two days ago when Communist leaders charged the government with "fraud" in the elections.
in the elections Observers believed they decided to demobilize after Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti's announcement Wednesday night that the Communists had no intention of making an appeal to force because of the elections.
Naturalists Band Bats
Two thousand bats were banded recently in McMoran cave by three staff members of the University museum of natural history. McMoran cave is southeast of Coldwater in Conanache county.
A. B. Leonard, associate professor of zoology, and graduate students Lendell Cockrum and A. B. Williams did the banding in two days. About 30,000 bats were hibernating in clusters of 10,000 in the cayes.
The banding is to determine in what parts of Kansas this particular type of bat spends the summer.
Anyone finding a banded bat is requested to remove the numbered band and send it, along with information as to where it was found, to the museum or to the fish and wildlife service. The bands slide loosely along an arm and can be removed without injuring the bat.
Bats are assets to farmers, Cockrum said, because they destroy insects. "They work the night shift, taking over when the birds go to bed."
Graduate Of 1891 Dies In Oregon
Wichita, April 22—(UP)—Funeral services will be held here Saturday for Dr. Henry Coffin Fellow, 92, for many years associated with the Friends university in Wichita, who died early Wednesday in Portland, Ore.
Dr. Fellow, former principal of many Quaker academies in Kansas and Oklahoma, had been active in teaching and school administration for 58 years.
Early in life he was a newspaper man in Indiana and once was editor of the Grant County Republican there. Although blind in recent years, he wrote 15 books of poetry.
Dr. Fellow received his master of arts degree from the University in 1891.
Dr. Canuteson To Meeting
Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of the University health service, will attend a meeting of the executive committee of the Kansas Tuberculosis and Health association in Kansas City today. Dr. Canuteson is vice-president of the association.
J. Wayne McCoy, president of the University's national alumni association, presenting honor scrolls to the University's oldest fraternity and sorority, Beta Theta Pi and Pi Beta Phi, on their 75th anniversary.
Senior Shows Musicianship
By CRYSTAL CHITTENDEN
Kansas may be a big producer of wheat but it is rapidly becoming apparent from the quality of the senior recitals sponsored by the School of Fine Arts that the state can also be proud of the musicians it is producing. Louis Cunningham, in his voice recital Wednesday, is as fine an example as can be found.
He not only possesses a mature tenor voice with depth and timbre, but he enjoys singing and has a versatile style of presentation. To top this, he has an amiable but commanding stage personality.
Mr. Cunningham's program included classical and modern compositions, ranging from the religious to folk-songs, and each one seemed satisfying to the responsive audience. He sang three tongue-twisters, "Rossini's 'La Danza'," Grieg's "Der Jager," and "The Spanish Lady," an Irish folk-song arranged by Hughes, but retained the essence of each composer's work.
His French group included two of Debussy's numbers and two of Ravel's. After "Vocalise" by Ravel, done entirely by vocalizing, there was prolonged applause as after Rimsky-Korsakoff's "The Nightingale and the Rose."
According to the law passed, every institution must provide effective training for the veterans enrolled, report the veteran's attendance and progress, and keep a veteran in training no longer than his conduct and progress warrants.
His listeners had no trouble in understanding every word and the implied meaning of the songs he sang in English. He handled "The Rovin' Gamble" arranged by Niles with discriminating humor.
"There will be no apparent change at the University because the supervision of veterans under the 346 program has always been managed by school authorities," he explained.
To complete a superb performance Mrs. Marie Wilkins joined Mr. Cunningham in singing Gounod's duet from the fourth act of "Romeo et Juliette."
VA To Check Up On Disabled Vets
A check will be made on the progress of the disabled veteran in completing his vocational objective. Albert C. Sipes, and Floyd E. Stayton are the interviewers. They will be at the university one day each week. Each veteran will receive a notice by mail to report to the veterans bureau in Frank Strong annex C to arrange for an appointment.
Disabled veterans attending school under public law 16 will be interviewed by representatives from the Veterans administration regional office in Kansas City.
E. R. Elbel, director of the veterans bureau, said this applies only to veterans training under public law 16. School authorities will be responsible for the supervision of veterans studying under public law 346. This is due to a law recently passed in congress to streamline the staff of the V.A.
College Delegates
Pick Vandenberg
Lexington, Va., April 22—(UP)—If the Washington and Lee university mock Republican convention guessed right and it usually does, Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan is assured of the G.O.P. presidential nomination this summer.
Senator Vandenberg came from far behind in the campus convention here Wednesday night to win the "nomination" in a landslide on the ninth ballot.
Sen. Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts won the students' Republican vice-presidential nod.
Washington and Lee has held its mock conventions for the challenging party every election year but two since 1908, and the student delegates have predicted the eventual choice correctly five out of eight times.
Petitions Due For Engineer Council
Wants UWF Group Organized Here
James Burns, Princeton student, spoke Wednesday to a group of University students to help them establish a United World Federalist chapter on the campus.
Harrison Madden, College junior,
said that a meeting will be held
April 28 to see if enough students
are interested in the U.W.F. to form
a local chapter.
Petitions for officers of the Engineering council must be turned in to the office of the school of engineering by 5 p.m. April 26. The officers include president, vice-president, and secretary-treasurer. Petitions must be signed by at least 25 engineering students.
180 Expected At Conference
More than 180 persons are expected to attend the annual student-faculty conference, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Lawrence Country club, Richard Hawkinson, conference chairman said today.
Included in this number will be Chancellor Deane W. Malott and the deans of all the schools of the University, he added.
Four main topics will be discussed by committees headed by student-faculty co-chairmen.
The conference is sponsored by Sachem circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, senior men's honor society.
Co-chairmen and tobes are: Dean L. C. Woodruff and John Irwin, student attitude; Dean George B. Smith and Bruce Bathurst, curriculum; Prof. J. O. Maloney and Patrick Thiessen, student-faculty-administration relations; Prof. Calvin Vander Werf and Ralph Kiene, pre-enrollment.
Preliminary discussion on three of these topics was held Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Persons interested in the conference are invited to attend the fourth preliminary discussion, on pre-enrollment, in Fraser theater at 4 p.m. today, Hawkinson said.
At Saturday's conference, the committee on student attitude will lead discussion on student discipline, dishonesty on quizzes, school spirit, traditions, and sportsmanship.
The type of education that appeals to the student, value of new courses, language requirements, and major sheets will be discussed by the curriculum committee.
The student - faculty - administration relations committee will discuss the All Student Council, faculty senate, and the student-faculty conference itself.
The Wesley Foundation will hold a picnic tomorrow to take the place of the annual spring party.
Discussion led by the pre-enrollment committee will be on the plans and advantages of pre-enrollment conferences.
Weslev Picnic Tomorrow
Transportation will be provided for all persons who meet at either Myers hall or the Methodist church at 4:30 p. m.
Jewish Forces Seize Haifa In Big Sweep
Haifa, Palestine, April 22- (UP)—Jewish Hagannah forces seized the great Palestine port city of Haifa today after an all-night offensive which forced outnumbered Arabs to sue for peace.
Haganah issued a cease fire order at 11:30 a.m. and the town was reported quiet an hour later except for sporadic firing which gradually decreased.
The Haganah attack was launched Wednesday afternoon within a few hours after British authorities announced they were withdrawing virtually all troops.
Jewish forces swept down from their positions on the heights of Hedar Hak Karmel and captured a major portion of the old city by this morning.
one member of the Arab nations committee said the Jews shot down a large number of women and children attempting to flee from the old city in the British-protected port area.
Arabs, seeing the Jews holding many strategic points in the downtown area, were convinced that further resistance was hopeless.
A Haganah spokesman said the offensive was carried out with a surprisingly small number of casualties.
The Jews demanded that all "European Nazis" harbored by the Arabs be delivered to Haganah; that Haganah take over the policing of all Haifa outside the British-protected zones; and that all Haganah orders be binding on both Arabs and Jews.
Curtis McCoy was re-elected president of the Emporia alumni group Wednesday. Other officers are Frank Van Camp, vice president, and Mrs. Marjorie Stauffer Steerman, secretary-treasurer.
Elect McCoy At Emporia
Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the alumni association, and Jack Taylor, director of the war memorial drive, spoke to the alumni. Pictures of the proposed University campanile and campaniles of other schools were shown.
Frank N. Warren was chairman of dinner arrangements and is chairman of the war memorial committee.
Singing was led by Leroy W. Raynolds, a former member of the prize winning University glee club of 1923.
Mr. Ellsworth will go to St. Joseph today to attend another alumni meeting.
Clubs On Campus
Inter-Fraternity Singing Contest Will Be Held On May 16
The annual Inter-fraternity Sing contest, sponsored by Xi chapter of Phi Mu Alpha, honorary music fraternity, will be held from 2:30 to 5 p. m. May 16. in Hoch auditorium.
The winner of this contest each year is awarded a trophy cup. There are also two honorable mention awards.
Applications should be addressed to Ben W. Shanklin, 1515 W. Campus road. No applications will be accepted after April 30.
Russian History Is Topic
Mrs. Rachael Soloveitchik discussed "the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries in Russian history at the meeting of the Russian club Wednesday.
The fight of the Russian people against autocracy and serfdom in the 18th century, will be the subject of the next discussion on May 5.
Republicans Will Elect
The Young Republicans club will elect officers at 6:30 p.m. today in 106 Green hall. A slate of candidates has been selected by the executive council but the meeting will be open for nominations from the floor.
Linnaean Club Picnic
The Linnaean club will hold its annual picnic at Buck creek April 25.
Delta Sigma Pi
All interested students and faculty members, whether club members or not, should meet at 2 p.m. April 25 in Snow hall. Adequate transportation will be provided. Each person should bring his own box lunch. Coffee will be provided by the club.
Delta Sigma Pi, international business fraternity, will present Kenneth V. James, a department of commerce business specialist, as guest speaker at 7:30 tonight in the recreation room of the Union. The meeting is open to the public.
Christianity Is Discussed
"Christianity is essentially a family relationship with God," Robert Finley, graduate student at the University of Chicago School of Divinity, told members of the Intervarsity Christian Fellowship Wednesday.
Mr. Finley described Christianity from a negative point of view to emphasize and clarify his definition.
"Christianity is not membership in an organization, nor humanism, nor mere morality, but a personal relationship with God," he said.
Zoologists To Hear Talk
A. B. Leonard, associate professor of zoology, will speak on "Mollusca in Pleistocene Stratigraphy" to the Snow Zoology club at 7:30 tonight in 206 Snow hall. Officers for next year will also be elected.
The annual club picnic will be held from 2 to 6 p.m. m Saturday at the Robinson farm. All club members and their guests are invited.