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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1948
Cincinnati Orchestra Plays Tonight In Hoch
The Cincinnati symphony orchestra, under the direction of American trained Thor Johnson, will appear as the fourth major attraction on the University concert series at 8:20 p.m. today in Hoch auditorium. Student activity tickets will admit.
Dean D. M. Swarthout will give a stag luncheon today at the Union for
Thor Johnson and members of the University music faculty. Mr. Johnson will speak to the group.
the orchestra held a rehearsal in Hoch auditorium Tuesday. A number of the University music faculty and a few students were present.
Victor Borge, radio musical humorist, is traveling with the orchestra. He will be a guest of Dean Swarthout at the concert tonight.
The orchestra is supported by an endowment fund. Most of the members can play two or more instruments. More than half of them have played together for over twenty years. A few have been with the symphony for thirty years.
Fifty-two of the personnel are American-born. The remainder are naturalized citizens. Seventeen are native Cincinnatians.
The orchestra's conductors have been Frank van der Stucken, Leopold Stokowski, Dr. Ernest Kunwalk, Eugene Ysaye, Fritz Reiner, Eugene Goossens, and Thor Johnson. Stokowiak started his orchestral conducting career by directing the Cincinnati orchestra for three seasons.
seasons.
The orchestra has been directed by many guest conductors including Richard Strauss, Arturo Toscanini, Walter Damrosch, and Andre Kostelanetz.
The program follows:
The program follows:
Overture, "Lenore." No. 3, Op. 72
Beethoven
Don Juan, Op 20 ... Richard Strauss
Suite Provencale ... Milhaud
Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op 64
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Name Top NROTC Men
The names of ten top ranking freshmen in the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps were announced by Capt. John V. Peterson, professor of naval science, today.
The ratings are a combined score from academic grades, naval science grades, and navy aptitude scores.
The following students are included in this top 20 per cent: William W. Meier, engineering sophomore; Harry F. Spucher, engineering freshman; John V. Nalley, College freshman; Carl G. Nelson, pharmacy freshman; Delbert L. Miller, engineering freshman; John P. Howard, engineering freshman; Robert M. Newman, College sophomore; Leonard M. Shinn, College junior; Frederick H. Whittemore, College freshman; Keith J. Steincamp, engineering freshman
Students Named To State Council
George H. Caldwell, College senior, and John F. Steineger, third year law student, were elected recently to represent the University Young Democrats on the Kansas Young Democrats Inter-Collegiate council.
Ray Baker, president of the national organization of Young Democrats, will speak at the Council's first meeting March 7, at Washburn university. Topeka.
The Inter-Collegiate council was originated by the University Young Democrats and the organizational meeting was Feb. 20 in Topeka. The council is the first of its kind in the country, and, according to John W. Wood, Jr., council vice-chairman, the national officers of the Young Democrats are considering expanding it to nationwide scale.
Tom Page, political science instructor and faculty adviser, outlined plans for forums to be sponsored this coming summer by the Young Democrats. Each forum will consist of a moderator and three speakers who will travel through Kansas to explain the Young Democrats' program.
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YM To Hear A. J. Muste
The Rev. A. J. Muste, executive secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, will be the guest speaker at a meeting of the Y.M.C.A. at 4 p.m. March 9 in the Kansas room of the Union. His topic is on "Which Way European Recovery?" He will also speak at a dinner meeting of the Y.W.C.A. cabinet at 6 p.m.
He will be in Kansas tomorrow and remain until March 10, speaking at Wichita, Hoisington, Sterling, Wellington, and Ottawa. He will also speak at Baker university. His tour is under the direction of the Institute of International Relations.
The Rev. Mr. Muste traveled in England, Germany, France and Czechoslovakia last summer. He attended the peace conference at Le-Chabon, France, and he was a leader at the Christian youth conference at Oslo, Norway.
The Rev. Mr. Muste is an ordained minister in the Dutch Reformed church and for two years he was a director of the Labor temple in New York.
Radio Class Hears Television Expert
Anyone with six months television experience is considered an "old hand at the game," news director James Lawrence of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch television station, KSD, told a journalism class in radio copy techniques Tuesday.
In describing television news techniques, Mr. Lawrence said the station combines the voice of a narrator with still pictures, maps, and diagrams to illustrate news events. Direct quotes taken from interviews on wire recorders are inserted in the broadcasts. News reels and on-the-spot coverage of major events as the opening of congress, city council meetings, and sports contests make up the rest of the television station's news schedule.
Mr. Lawrence is also news director for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch AM and FM radio stations. He is a graduate of the University School of Journalism.
South Threatens Party Walkout As Klan Acts
Three KU Student Speak
At Washburn WSSF Drive
Three members of the International club spoke to Washburn university students to help launch the World Student Service fund drive Monday. They are Jessie Marcella Estrada, College freshmen, and Kuo Chih Hfu and Edmund Kostka, graduate students.
Washington, March 3—(UP)—The Southern revolt threatened the Democratic party today with a national convention walkout on the scale of the Bull Moose bolt from the 1912 Republican convention.
Suggestions of a convention walk-out came from various Southern Democratic spokesmen in their search for ways to make effective President Truman's civil rights program.
Most of those proposals were tied to a demand that the convention repudiate Mr. Truman's program and declare for "states rights" in handling racial issues. That would make an acceptable convention plank the price of party peace.
punk the process.
But some Southerners insisted that a platform compromise was not enough. They said the South's delegates should walk out if President Truman were nominated. Whatever the platform says, these Southerners believe there is no chance that Mr. Truman will withdraw his request for federal laws against lynching, poll taxes, and job discrimination. Bolt Would Hurt Party
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If the 11 states of the Old South act as a walkout would take 298 hours, the 1.234 Democratic delegate out of the convention hall. A bolt on a smaller scale would still give the convention a sizeable jolt. There has been some talk that Southern states might not send delegates to the convention. More cautious Southerners, however, are warning against a complete break before the convention.
The Ku Klux Klan demonstrated against President Truman's civil rights proposals in Wrightsville, Ga. Tuesday night. Apparently the marching of 280 Klan knights in full regalia, and the burning of a 15-foot high cross on the courthouse lawn had no connection with a local Democratic primary today.
Democrat Dr. Samuel Green of Atlanta grand dragon of the Klan in Georgia, made the only speech. He denounced the civil rights program and urged his 2,000 lisenters to stronger opposition of federal anti-lynching, anti-Jim Crowism, and anti-poll tax legislation.
No Nomination Of Primary
Green pledged the Klan to uphold the constitution and to a fight against communism and federal civil rights statutes. He said the Klan reaffirms its loyalty to the constitution and to the laws of the land but that "there are some things beyond the law."
Dr. L. H. Leger, associate professor at the University Medical center, told members of the Bacteriology club Tuesday that "bacteriologists are becoming more important in helping doctors diagnose diseases caused by germs.
No one has made no mention of the local primary, Earlier, Johnson county Democratic officials had withdrawn a pledge for each voter to sign, signifying his support of the white primary, the county unit system, and his opposition to civil rights legislation and communism.
"Usually, doctors are unable to recognize the germs which cause a disease in his patient, and it is up to the bacterologist to find and identify the cause," he said.
Doctor Tells Club Of Germ Hunters
Dr. Leger also said the University Medical center requires women students to complete 15 hours of internship to become medical technicians.
Waldamar Gelth To Give Violin Recital At KCU
Waldemar Gelich, professor of violin, will give a recital at the University of Kansas City for the class of music appreciation gt 10 a. m.
Richard Gayhart, fine arts sophomore, will accompany him on the piano.
Art Classes Plan Union Annex Mural
The senior design classes are preparing wall designs for the addition to the Union fountain. The designs are 11 by 15 feet and show campus scenes.
snow campuses The designs will be finished by March 12, and a Union committee will select the design to be used. Art students will do the painting on the walls.
Marjorie Whitney, professor of design, is in charge of the classes.
Fear 17 Dead In Haifa Blast
Jerusalem, March 3—(UP)—A 400-pound barrel bomb exploded outside the former municipal building in the Arab quarter of Haifa today, killing 11 to 17 persons, wounding 16 to 50, and wrecking two buildings.
buildings.
An official announcement said 11 were killed and 16 injured seriously, all of them Arabs. Later private reports said the casualty toll reached 17 dead and 50 injured.
Authorities tentatively identified the bombers as members of the Stern group of the Jewish underground.
A mysterious caller identifying himself as a spokesman for the Sternists told the Palestine post that "we had to do this."
The British fought on the side of the Jews against the Arabs, who took the offensive in attacks against Jewish convoys on the highway. Casualties were reported to have been light.
Besides the two buildings demolished, others in the neighborhood, including police district headquarters, were damaged. Military and police rescue workers searched the derbis to determine whether any victims still were under it.
Other reports said British troops using light artillery and automatic weapons have broken up a snipers engagement between Jews and Arabs in the hills near Bab El Wad, halfway between Jerusalem and Jaffa.
The British attack was the first made in carrying out Monday's ultimatum that heavy weapons would be turned on either side which took the offensive in the Holy land war
Truman May Go Fishing
The chief executive is sort of a spectator fisherman. He'd rather watch other people haul 'em in, although he religiously takes his staff fishing each time he visits Key West.
Key West, March 3-(UP)-The weather man permitting, President Truman will go fishing today.
The wind for the past 24 hours has been kicking up a sea almost too much for trolling. If it subsides by midday, the president will don his pink siack suit and head for deep water.
Each time the White House staff goes fishing, the President, by protocol, is first to take the swivel chair at the end of the crash boat for about 30 minutes of trolling. And that is about the limit of his fishing.
The rest of the time he relaxes under a canvas canopy and heckles his associates as they attempt to lure the big south Florida fish.
This will be just about the last chance for the president to fish. He will fly back to Washington Friday morning. A courier plane arrives today with more official papers for his study.
The body of George Seahorn, 60,
was found at Lakin, west of Garden
City. Mr. Seahorn's car apparently
stalled in a snowbank only a few
blocks from the trailer camp where
he lived with his wife.
Kansas Storm Kills Two
Garden City, March 3-(UP)-The snow storm which swept this area Tuesday claimed two lives.
Authorities believed over exertion in Mr. Seahorn's attempt to free his car caused a fatal heart attack.
A second body was found in an abandoned filling station near Sublette. It had not been identified today.
Senator George Predicts Tax Cut By Congress
Washington, March 3—(UP)—Sen. Walter F. George (D.-Ga.) agreed with Republican senators today that congress will approve an income tax cut of between 4 billion 500 million dollars and 5 billion dollars.
But he declined to speculate on whether such a bill would muster in both the senate and house the two-thirds majority necessary to override the anticipated veto by President Truman.
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Senator George is the ranking Democratic member of the senate finance committee which is holding hearings on the house-approved, Republican-sponsored 6 billion 500 million dollars slash in personal income taxes.
come taxes.
Committee chairman Eugene Millikan (R—Colo.) first put the ultimate size of the tax reduction at between 4 billion 500 million dollars and 5 billion dollars during a committee hearing. George in an interview later made a more specific estimate of 4 billion 800 million dollars.
Senator Millikan apparently thought a tax reduction that large could be enacted over a veto.' A desire to veto-proof the tax cut is the chief reason why the Republicans are out to whittle down the house figure.
Senator George said he does not expect and change in the three other main provisions of the house bill. They call for a $100 increase in the present $500 personal exemption, an additional $600 exemption for the aged and blind, and extension of the split-income benefit to married couples in all states.
Senator George said that "chances would be improved for final enactment if the revenue loss is held between 4 billion dollars and 4 billion 500 million dollars. He said he would expect President Truman to yet even the lower tax reduction.
The trimming on the house bill,
Senator George predicted, would be done by halving the percentage cuts on tax rates. The house bill calls for percentage reductions ranging from 30 per cent in the low income brackets to 10 per cent in the higher brackets.
Four senators went before the committee today to urge adoption of their amendments to the tax-slashing bill. The committee is expected to reject all of them.
The following were pledged: Glenn L. Amend, William E. Beck, William F. Binter, David H. Clymer, Darrrell L. Havener, Dean R. Knuth, Jack B. McKee, Carlos R. Melton, Charles L. O'Connor, Robert C. Snyder, Don L. Tennent, Don D. Waldron, Don W. Welch, and James N. Wilson.
Alpha Delta Sigma, national professional fraternity, held an informal pledging for 14 new members Tuesday.
John R. Malone, professional member of the fraternity and instructor in journalism, spoke to the group on the problems they will save to face in the 20th century.
The Y. M. C. A. social responsibilities commission will study the candidates for political positions in Kansas, and will write a pamphlet containing the platform of the prospective candidates for the coming election.
Advertising Group Pledges 14 Men
Pamphlet By YMCA To Inform Voters
John L. Eberhardt, chairman of the commission, said committee would be chosen according to districts throughout the state to obtain the information.
"The purpose of the pamphlet," Eberhardt said, "will be to gather the facts about the candidate's platform so the voters will know what the candidates are advocating."