UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1948
Fact-Finding Board To Study Packers' Strike
Chicago, March 17—(UP)—President Trump's fact-finding board opens hearings today on the C.I.O. United Packinghouse Workers strike which has slashed the nation's meat production in half.
production in northeastern A survey by United Press showed today that housewives across the nation were refusing to be panicked into a buying spree to stock up on meat. It had been feared they would rush to markets to beat an expected meat shortage.
at shortage. The president's fact-finding board consists of three university professors: Dr. Pearce Davis, 40, chairman of the business and economies department at the Illinois Institute of Technology here; Prof. Walter V. Schaefer, 43, Northwestern university Law school; and Prof. Nathan P. Feinsinger, 45, of the University of Wisconsin Law school at Madison. Professor Feinsinger, who specializes in labor law, formerly was a member of the war labor board.
More than 100,000 packinghouse workers struck at 133 plants yesterday to enforce demands for a wage increase. The union originally demanded a 29 cent hourly increase but indicated at one point in negotiations that it would settle for 19 cents.
Leading meat processing firms already had pledged to furnish the board with all available facts.
The board is under orders to report back to Mr. Truman by April 1. In Washington, some officials believed the board might complete its work and report back to Mr. Truman within 48 hours. He then could instruct the attorney general at once to obtain a federal court injunction to halt the walkout. That procedure is provided by the Taft-Hartley act under which the board was appointed.
Library Adds New Books
Approximately 1000 new volumes have been received by Watson library, said Miss Helen Titsworth, head cataloguer.
Some of the new books are "To Secure These Rights," the report of the president's committee on civil rights; "Yearbook of the United Nations 1946-47," department of public information, U.N.; "Where I Stand," Harold E. Stassen; "Across the Wide Missouri," Bernard DeVoto; "Anti-Semitism—A Social Disease," edited by Ernst Simmel, M.D.
"Pursuit of Understanding—Autobiography of an Education," Esther Cloudman Dunn; "Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement." George E. Mowry; "Enjoyment of Laughter," Max Eastman; "One Thousand Americans," George Solles; "Queen Victoria and her Ministers," Sir John A. R. Marriott; "San Martin—Knight of the Andes," Ricardo Rosaj; "Unto the Least of These—Social Services for Children," Emma Octavia Lundberg; "The Circus in the Attic—and Other Stories," Robert Penn Warren.
4 Debaters Enter Big Nine Tourney
Four debaters will leave tomorrow morning for Madison, Wis., to take part in a major tournament of the Big Nine schools Friday and Saturday.
Affirmative speakers will be William A. Conboy and L. Edward Stollenwerck. Negative speakers are Keith Wilson and Hal Friesen. R. L. Schiefelbusch, assistant instructor in speech, will accompany the students.
Will Speak At Garnett
Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women, will speak tonight at a banquet for senior women of the Garnett High school. Her topic will be "Today's Woman."
Catch A Gimmick,
Collect $10,000
"I will give $10,000 to anyone who can point out any paid employees, stooges or confederates who could possibly assist me in my telegraphic readings."
This is a challenge which Joseph Dunninger, world famous telepathist, repeatedly makes to his audiences.
Dunninger will appear in Hoch auditorium at 8:20 p. m. tomorrow in a demonstration of his mind-reading powers.
Each member of the audience will receive an individual slip of paper on which to write his thoughts. Steps will lead down from the stage in two places allowing movable microphones to be carried by University ushers to Dunninger's "victims."
Fine Arts To Give Sunday Vespers
The School of Fine Arts will present a Palm Sunday All-Musical Vespers program at 4 p.m. March 21 in Hoch auditorium.
Jerald Hamilton, fine arts senior,
will open the performance with an
organ solo. The Woman's Glee club
of 5 singers, under the direction of
Miss Irene Peabody, will sing "To a Water Fowl" by Crist, and "Polish Child's Morning Prayer" arranged by Harvey Gaul.
The String Quintet, consisting of Marian Jersild, piano; Waldemar Geltch and W. Thomas Marrocco, violins; Vincent Bleeker, viola; and Raymond Stuhl, cello, will be heard in the opening movement of the Dohnanyi Quintet, Opus 1.
The University Men's Gee club, directed by Joseph Wilkins, will sing "Hark, The Vesper Hymn is Stealing" and an arrangement of "The Lord's Prayer."
The 108-voice A Cappella choir, directed by Dean D. M. Swarthout will sing the eight-part Russian anthem "Holy Radiant Light," Hall Johnson's "River Chant" featuring Curtis Glover, baritone, and a concert arrangement of the Negro spiritual "Father Abraham."
The 85-piece K.U. Symphony orchestra, directed by Russell L. Wiley, will close the program with the opening movement of Cesar Franck's D Minor symphony. The program will be broadcast over KFKU.
Increase In Names On Police Blotter
Fines for traffic and parking violations took a sharp rise last week as 37 persons appeared in police court or posted bonds for violations.
Among the persons listed on the police blotter Monday were Glenn Horst, C. M. Terry, Ivan Johnson, Robert Lammerton, V. M. Ambrose, Wayne Strong, Millard Rudd, George L. Kniff, Max Dresden, Merlin Phillips, H. L. Ketterman, Robert Baker, R. B. Sheridan, Bonnie Gimblet, Pedro Antonielli, John Harbaugh, Donald DeFord, John Brown, J. W. Luther, G. H. Cole, Q. L. Wheatley, and Roy E. Smoots. Brown, with two tickets for parking in a restricted zone, was the only person having more than one ticket.
Second semester sophomores who plan to enter the School of Education during the summer session or the fall semester may avoid crowded advising conditions by reporting to Dr. F. O. Russell tomorrow and Friday in 120 Fraser hall.
Dean Smith Sets Advising Dates
A complete analysis of their remaining educational program will be made, George B. Smith, dean of the School of Education, said today.
A large enrollment of sophomores in the School of Education is anticipated, he added. Sophomore qualifications include 50 credits and 60 grade points or a C average.
Don't be alarmed come Kansas Relays time if you see a jet model airplane taxiing full blast between Hoch auditorium and Lindley hall. It's all part of the engineering exposition which will be held April 16 and 17 in conjunction with the Relays. Aeronautical engineering students are going to exhibit the jet planes, a German model.
The Engineers Will Shine Come Exposition Time
Engineering students in all departments are making plans and preparing displays for the first exposition since 1940. Industrial firms will also send exhibits to be used here for the event, Joe R. Beeler, Jr., engineering senior and a member of the exposition committee, said.
the mechanical engineering department and American Society of Mechanical Engineers will have a power plant in operation. Latest developments in turbines will be shown, with some turbines in action, and cutaway models of others. Guess Again, Chum
The department will have an electric instrument which will allow the curious spectator to test his guessing ability. Exact horsepower being generated by the machines can be determined at any moment by the instrument.
Careful What You Say
The University Radio club is preparing a telephone-like device which will be erected in front of a screen, and as guests talk into it, electrically transmitted waves will flash across the screen measuring voice pitch and volume.
The department of civil engineering will graphically demonstrate the capabilities of modern day water purification systems. Dirty water containing cigarette butts and trash will be poured in at one end of the purifier and will come out clean as clear spring water at the other.
The American Institute of Electrical Engineers will show how hamburgers can be made on a cake of ice. The hungry spectator can also test the electrical engineer's cooking ability by ordering hot dogs, well done, medium, or rare. They are cooked in a fraction of a second by an electrical device.
The applied mechanics department will demonstrate a machine so strong that it exerts over 100 tons of pressure, yet so delicate that its trip hammer-like mechanism can be controlled to crack eggs. It is used to test the strength of concrete pillars. The elasticity of a hard substance such as steel also will be shown. An electrical instrument will record the degree to which the steel is bent.
and volume.
A 1000-watt radio transmitter also is being set up by the Radio club which will relay personal messages to cities in Mexico, Canada, Australia, and the United States. The set is powerful enough to be heard around the world.
Scale models of everything from skyscrapers to mortuaries will be on exhibit in the department of architectural engineering. A helioned, the machine used by architects to show how to use natural lighting to best advantage, will be in operation. George M. Beal, professor of architecture at the University, invented the machine, which was described in the March issue of Popular Science magazine.
It will take about three hours to see all the exposition, Beeler said. Members of the committee plan to conduct about 20,000 people through the displays. High school students from Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Missouri will see the extravagance.
The Reynolds metals company will have $30,000 display in operation, including background music, and moving pictures. It will show processes in manufacturing plate, sheet, and bar aluminum.
Souvenirs of the exposition will be given at Fowler shops. Students there will demonstrate casting and moulding and the end product will be ash trays.
Ash Trays The End
Loud speakers will be set up to announce relay results and to broadcast music.
Many other industrial and manufacturing firms are writing to the student members of the engineering exposition committee for permission to send displays.
The Ozald company will take guests' names and other information for billfold size, plastic identification cards which will be returned by the time the visitor is ready to leave the exposition.
KSC Dismisses Parking Violator
A Kansas State college student was dismissed Tuesday for a third violation of campus parking regulations. Dr. S. A. Nock, a member of the campus traffic control board, said the group "had agreed not to reveal the student's name."
venture the Milton S. Eisenhower, college president, said the case had not been brought to his attention and that the control board had jurisdiction in such cases.
sutn cases. Kansas State campus parking regulations state that the first ticket received by a student for a parking violation brings a warning from his dean; the second places the student on probation, and the third means expulsion. Faculty and staff members may receive four tickets before facing dismissal.
The Kansas State Collegeg, student newspaper, said Tuesday:
"Expulsion from school seems a pretty tough rap for parking in the wrong place. It is still a matter of speculation whether the rules will be as rigidly enforced if and when a faculty turns up with four tickets."
Russia Faces UN Defeat
Lake Success, N.Y., March 17-(UP)—Russia faces almost certain defeat today in the first round of the battle to keep the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia from being aired before the United Nations security council.
Reliable information indicated that at least seven, and perhaps nine of the council's 11 members would vote to place the Czech case on the agenda for a hearing. Only seven votes are needed to place the issue on the council's docket.
Russia was charged by Chile with engineering the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia that elevated the government of Premier Klement Gottwald to power.
It marked the second time in the brief history of the UN that Russia has been placed in the role of defendant in a critical international debate. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko reportedly had instructions to fight from the beginning to keep from having the issue placed on the council's docket.
"It is doubtful that the human race will ever develop the ability to resist exploitation by security frauds," Leslie L. Waters, assistant professor of economics, told members of Alpha Kappa Psi, business fraternity, Tuesday.
Professor Waters, who spoke on "Frauds in Securities," said, however, that the securities exchange commission and the blue-sky laws are "a step in the right direction."
Frauds To Continue, Says Economist
Eight School of Fine Arts students will present a recital at 3 p. m. tomorrow in Frank Strong auditorium.
Students To Give Recital Tomorrow
Betty Anne  Schoewe, Willard Straight, and Maxine Dunkleberg will play piano solos. Anne Hogue and Betty Hayward will give vocal numbers. The program will close with a string ensemble with Myron McNown at the violin, Maurice Pollom at the cello, and Frank White at the piano.
Congress Wants Explanation Of Coal Strike
Washington, March 17 — (UP)— The house-senate labor committee today demanded from John L. Lewis and soft coal operators an explanation within 48 hours of the pension dispute which has closed most of the nation's soft coal mines.
The committee heretofore has refrained from interfering in current labor disputes. But chairman Joseph H. Ball (R—Minn.) said the group now wanted to be kept fully informed on facts leading to the dispute and future developments.
Fear Long Shutdown
Fear Long. Both government and industry sources feared a shutdown of at least two weeks or longer unless Mr. Lewis, head of the United Mine workers, orders a back-to-work movement before his demand on miners pensions is settled.
miners pension is in its third day and more than 350,000 miners are idle in 14 states.
Mr. Lewis wants the welfare fund to pay $100 a month pensions to all miners over 60 years of age who have had 20 years service. The pensions would be financed from the welfare fund which is raised by a levy of 10 cents a ton on all coal mined. Mr. Van Horn has refused the request.
The government delayed intervention in the dispute pending the outcome of the operators' latest effort toward a settlement. They asked Lewis to go with them to the U.S. district court for help in solving the pension dispute. Lewis was asked to reply by Friday.
Soft coal production is down to a trickle and government officials fear the situation would be "very critical" if the strike lasts a week.
Production Is Down
Chief negotiators for the industry were tentatively scheduled to meet here tomorrow to decide what they should do in case Mr. Lewis ignores or turns down their offer. Mr. Van Horn said they probably would go to court independently in such an event.
David Yu, a foreign exchange student from China, will speak at a banquet. Mr. Yu is a student at the Central Baptist seminary in Kansas City. Dale W. Fields, College sophomore and president of the University group, will be toastmaster.
The University Baptist Youth fellowship will be hosts to the annual Kansas River association rally April 3 and 4. The theme of the rally will be "I Dd Rather Have Jesus."
Officers for the next year will be elected April 3. The relief project of "Heifers for Europe" will be discussed.
Helen Stringham, business junior and vice-president of the association is in charge of the rally.
Dr. A. J. Mix, professor of Botany, explained to the Bacteriology club Tuesday that fungi are agents of plant disease and agents of disease in man and animals. He spoke on "Fungi In Human Affairs" and used slides and specimens to illustrate his talk.
Baptists To Be Hosts For Rally
Calvin VanderWerf, associate professor of chemistry, will speak at the next meeting of the club April 13. Officers will be elected on that date.
The new officers will be installed on April 4.
Biology Club Hears Talk On Fungi
M. Carl Slough, assistant professor of law, will give a lecture to the Lawrence police force tonight at the station.
Professor Slough To Speak To Police Force Tonight
Professor Slough's topic will be "Searches and Seizures." The talk will place special emphasis on the action a policeman may take in liquor seizures and arrests, Professor Slough said.