UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1948
US Dodges Issue Of Armed Force For Palestine
Lake Success, Feb. 24—(UF)—The United States today dodged an early showdown on a U.N. army for Palestine but asked the security council to authorize Big Five consultations on the possibility of using armed force to keep the peace in the Holy land.
Mr. Austin said that if a majority of the 11-nation council finds a threat to peace exists, "the United States would be ready to consult under the U.N. charter with a view to such action as may be necessary to maintain international peace." Did Not Commit Us
American delegate Warren R. Austin proposed to the security council formation of a Big Five committee to determine whether the growing violence in the Holy Land constitutes a threat to world peace.
The long-awaited statement of American policy laid before the security council a three-point program which, it appeared, would sidetrack immediate action on the formal appeal of the U.N. Palestine commission for a full-fledged U.N. army to enforce Holy land partition.
While it implied American support for the use of force if the necessary majority of seven security council members decree it, the statement did not commit the United States to do more than "consult" with other members of the U.N.
Just before Mr. Austin spoke chairman Karel Lissicky of the Palestine commission warned the council that partition cannot be carried out unless the security council forms an international force by May 15, when Great Britain ends its responsibility for Palestine.
Mr. Austin's Plan
1. Assume responsibility for keeping peace in Palestine, as requested in the original U.N. general assembly's partition program.
Mr. Austin proposed that the council:
2. Establish a security council committee of "the five permanent members"—the Big Five powers—to "look at once into the question of possible threats to international peace arising in connection with the Palestine situation."
3. Call on all governments and peoples, particularly the Arab states, to "take all possible action to prevent or reduce the disorders now occurring in Palestine."
Great Britain promptly served notice it would refuse "either individually or in association with others" to contribute to carrying out the U.N.'s Palestine partition program by force.
To Speak For River Control
F. A. Russell, professor of engineering drawing, and 10 delegates for the Kansas river flood control program will leave today for Washington D. C. They will testify for the program before the board of engineers for rivers and harbors.
The delegates represent Douglas, Jefferson, Johnson, and Leavenworth counties.
The program "provides for flood control and stream regulation of the Kaw river, adequate water supply, efficient sewage disposal, and power for industry," said George Hedrick, secretary of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.
Reservoirs are to be constructed at Perry, Milford, and Turtle creeks. Appropriations are expected to run into millions of dollars, he added.
If the program is passed, flood protection will be built at Bonner Springs, Junction City, Kansas City, Lawrence, Manhattan, and Topeka.
Professor Russell, chairman of the Lawrence water works commission, said that "numbers count and that we will be there to argue against those who oppose it."
Quakers Interview Relief Workers
Myra Lou Williamson, representative of the American Friends Service committee, will be on the campus today to interview students interested in summer work on the Friends' relief and rehabilitation projects.
The American Friends Service committee was awarded the Nobel peace prize for its relief work over the world. Miss Williamson wants students for work in Europe and the United States. Appointments may be arranged through the Y.M. or Y.W. office.
Bids Approved For New Shops
The buildings will be located south of electrical engineering laboratories and will replace Fowler shops. The William Allen White School of Journalism will move into Fowler shops upon completion of the new building.
The board of regents approved bids for the new engineering building Friday. Excavation will begin March 15. Basil Green, general contractor, has announced.
Green bid $202,850 for the general construction. Other bids were plumbing, Claude Williams, Kansas City, $33,175; and electrical, A. Tucer, Topeka, $21,531.96. The appropriation for the building was set at 290,000.
1948 Grads To Get Jobs
If you are going to be graduated from college in 1948, you have a good chance to get a decent job. The Northwestern National Life Insurance company has statistics to prove it, based on a survey of employers and 34 major universities and technical schools.
"Demand for 1947-48 winter graduates so far is equal to or above that of a year ago, with a sharp increase in calls for sales personnel, and continued heavy demand for engineers and accountants," the survey finds.
Corporation scouts are already beginning to arrange for interviews with June graduates. Most schools expect to place all their available graduates without much delay.
"At the same time employers are raising their standards, and are no longer eager to take on anyone with just a passing grade. It is the upper third of the class which has the best opportunity," the report said.
Salaries have almost doubled since 1939 for college graduates, and are $10 to $25 above last year. The engineering graduates' salary ranges from $240 to $275, and that of graduates in non-technical fields is from $200 to $235 a month according to the survey.
"Some placement officials feel that in the technical field, the supply of engineering graduates is at last about to catch up with demand, with a number of schools graduating their first full-sized engineering classes since before the war this June," the survey said. Nearly all placement officials feel that the general demand for college-trained personnel will continue throughout this year.
Final tryouts for work on various KFKU dramatic programs will be at 3 p.m. tomorrow in the recording room of Green hall, Miss Mary Jane Dean, producer, said today. Results will be posted Friday morning. Sophomores, junior, and seniors will receive $ \frac{1}{2} $ hour credit for work on the programs.
The report said that most students graduating this year are veterans, older than the prewar graduate, and one third of them are married. Most of them want jobs offering security and little traveling.
Tryouts for KFKU Are Tomorrow At 3
Campus Police Now Members Of City Force
The campus police are now regular members of the police department, Chief of Police C. A. Bliesner said this morning.
Acting upon the recommendation of Mayor Parsons, the city council voted last night to appoint the six campus policemen to the city force. The newly appointed officers began their duties this morning.
A summary of the city regulations to be strictly enforced by the campus police includes the following rules which apply to drivers and to pedestrians.
Section 4. "It shall be unlawful for any person to refuse or fail to comply with any lawful order, signal or directions of a police officer."
All regulations come under chapter 16, of the city ordinances.
Condensation of section 15. "Drivers must yield the right of way to pedestrians at any crosswalk in the middle of the block, or at the end of a block unless the crosswalk is regulated by a traffic officer. In all other cases the driver has the right of way."
Condensation of section 16. "Drivers shall yield the right of way to any pedestrians crossing, or who have started to cross on a go signal. In all other cases the pedestrians shall yield the right of way to vehicles. This does not mean that a car turning to the right or left has the right of way over a pedestrian. All cars making a turn at any intersection must give way to pedestrians."
Condensation of section 25. "Drivers may not stop in the following places: within an intersection; on a crosswalk; inside or within 20 feet of a safety zone; within 25 feet of an intersection; within 30 feet of traffic signs on the side of the road; within 10 feet of a fire hydrant (on either side); in front of a private driveway or sidewalk."
Condensation of section 71. "Any person involved in an accident of any description must stop at once. He shall not leave the scene until a proper report and assistance has been given."
Additional violations which Robert Corwin, campus policeman, has noted on the campus include Uturns, which are permitted only at the ends of the campus: disregarding the signals of the traffic officer at the intersection of Jayhawker drive and Mississippi, and reckless driving. Tickets will be given for these infractions.
Members of the executive committee, board of trustees, and student leaders of the Memorial Drive association will meet in the English room of the Union at 6:30 tonight to hear the report of the new campaign director, Jack Taylor.
Traffic officers have been instructed to give tickets to any pedestrian or driver violating any city or University regulation. No warning tickets will be given.
Memorial Group Will Meet Tonight
Members of the executive committee who will attend are Hugo T Wedell, president, Topeka; Carl V Rice, vice-president, Kansas City Kan.; Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the department; Holmes, treasurer, Lawrence; Edward W, Tanner, Kansas City, Mo. and J, Wayne McCov, Topeka.
Board of trustee members attending tonight's meeting are Dr. Forrest C. Allen, varsity basketball coach; J. W. Murray, managing editor of the Lawrence Journal-World. C. C. Stewart, president of the University Endowment association; and R. B. Stevens, former president of the alumni association.
Patrick H. Thiessen, chairman, and Robert Malott, vice-chairman of the student drive committee, and Kenneth Postlethwaite, publicity director of the Memorial Drive association, will also attend.
Flight Engineer To Speak To IAE
Col. Jerry Davidson, flight test engineer, will address the Institute of Aeronautical Engineering on compulsory military training at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the quonset hut behind Marvin hall.
Col. Davidson is attached to the air reserve unit at Fairfax field in Kansas City, Kan. He tested the new Cessna 170' aircraft being experimented on to insure greater safety for passengers in commercial planes.
Lawrence was saved from a blackout Monday night by the alertness of the dispatcher at the Kansas Electric Power company, C. F. Hough, manager said today.
A $75,000 fire and explosion at the Tecumseh plant of the Kansas Power and Light company disrupted electric power service to 215 Northeast Kansas towns Monday night.
Fire, Explosion Cause Blackout
The dispatcher was able to switch over to the auxiliary power of the Kansas Gas and Electric company, who has headquarters at Wichita, with the lights flickering only twice.
The break darkened all towns in the company's network at least momentarily. Some were able to cut in supplementary lines quickly, company officials said.
At Topeka, service was restored to hospitals within 30 minutes, but the rest of the city was without power for 55 minutes.
The fire was thought to be caused by a short which burned out a 25,000-kilowatt oil circuit breaker, and a steam boiler exploded as a result.
'US Fascism Is Growing'
"Fascism is here—in embryo—and growing like the dickens." Tom Rehorn, member of the Kansas City Progressive Citizens of America, told the Unitarian Liberal club Sunday night.
The former minister denounced American capitalism, stating that "the capitalists of this country made Hitler possible." He compared the growth of fascism in the United States to the rise of the Nazi regime.
He criticized the churnes for inactivity in the field of politics, "I am a churner," he said, adding that preachers are controlled by the industrialists among the laymen. He cited several examples from his own experience.
He accused the F. B. I. and the attorney-general's office of "using Gestapo methods," and said the two offices are "tools in the hands of totalitarian industrialists." He said that the F. B. I. has more than two million persons listed as "undesirable Americans."
In answer to a question he said that the two major political parties are slowly adopting the same policy in major issues where the capitalists are concerned.
"President Truman does not intend to do anything about the report he received from the committee on civil rights," he said. Mr. Rehorn is a firm believer in the third party, and is a stamach supporter of presidential candidate Henry Wallace.
Rodgers' Voice Pleases In Recital
Elaine Rodgers gave her senior voice recital Monday night with a graciousness and enthusiasm that delighted her audience. Her enunciation and tones were clear and vibrant. She sang with feeling and enjoyment.
Miss Rodgers is a mezzo-soprane
from Joseph F. Willk
, the professor of ypls.
Maxine Dunkleberg, fine arts junior, provided an excellent accompaniment.
Reds Make Coup Seize Offices In Slovakia
Prague, Feb. 24. —(UP)—Premier Klement Gottwald tightened the Communist grip on Czechoslovakia today, striking hard at opposition parties in a series of moves which included the seizure of the offices of two Peoples party publications.
Twenty armed soldiers and policemen occupied the Social Democratic party headquarters. Officers searched the party offices. Plainclothes guards wearing broad red lapel ribbons took part in the seizure similar to that of the National Socialist headquarters yesterday.
Univers Hold Strike
Rumors swept through Prague that Gottwald would complete his coup today, and that he had gone to see president Eduard Benes to present a new cabinet. The rumors, which were indicative of the tension here, were disproved by official assurance that Gottwald had not seen Benes shortly after noon. Call Mass Meeting.
Communist-directed trade unions carried out a one-hour token strike in support of Gottwald's program. Crowds assembled for mass meetings heard speakers lambast the "Western imperialists" and praise the Communist program.
The Communists called a 'mass meeting at 6 p.m., (11 a.m. Lawrence time) at which some sources expected Premier Klement Gottwald to announce a new all-leftist cabinet.
Unions Hold Strike
The Slovak Democratic party was staggered by Communist moves which appeared to put Slovakia, the eastern part of the country, in the hands of the Communists.
Slovak officials in Prague said Communists have ousted the Slovak Democratic mayor of Bratislava, capital of Slovakia, and replaced him with a Communist, Dr. Anton Basla. Resign In Protest
The Slovak Democratic party is one of the three parties whose ministers resigned from the government last week in protest against Communist efforts to create a police state in Czechoslovakia.
Their resignations have not been accepted by Benes, who continued to defy Gottwald last night by reiterating his insistence that any new government contain all parliamentary parties.
Bell To Honor T.P.Hunter
A bell for the memorial carillon is the goal of a drive for funds in memory of Thomas Pitt "T.P." Hunter, who was killed on Guam while serving as a lieutenant in the Marine Corps.
Mr. Hunter was a basketball letterman in '40, '41, and '42. Last year, he was elected posthumously captain of the 1946 cage team. Mr. Hunter also earned a letter in baseball in 1942. After graduation he enlisted in the marine corps, and was killed by a sniper's bullet on the opening day of the invasion of Guam in July, 1944.
Dr. Forrest C. Allen, honorary chairman of the drive, said that after Mr. Hunter's death contributions totaling about $400 were sent to him for some sort of memorial to honor Mr. Hunter. Dr. Allen called together a group of the athlete's friends to form a committee to raise money for a bell inscribed with his name in the memorial carillon. Members of the committee are Robert Malott, chairman, Otto Schnellbacher, John Baldwin, and Dinner Clinger.
Malott said that the type_of bell the committee wants to buy will cost $2,000, and the goal of the campaign will be to raise that amount
Dr. Allen is sending letters to all former teammates of Mr. Hunter explaining the purpose of the drive. Contributions to the campaign should be sent to the War Memorial association in care of the T. P. Hunter fund.
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