University Daily Kansan OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Monday, Feb. 9, 1948
Monday, Feb. 9, 1948
Lawrence Kansas
'Mikado' Opens Tonight With All-Student Cast
Sixty University students who have put not only their talent but also their financial assistance into the production of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta 'The Mikado' will find out today if their investment paid off, Tuesday and Friday. The curtain goes up at 8:15 p.m.
student help.
The three groups sponsoring the opera are Phi Mu Epsilon, professional music fraternity, and Mu Phi Epsilon and Sigma Alpha Iota, professional music sororities. The members have provided working capital for the operetta.
The operta will be presented by the K.U. Light Opera guild. It will have an all-student cast, the first at the University in more than 10 years. The all-student cast has nine principals, a chorus of 14 men and 14 women, and an orchestra of 20. Prof. Gerald M. Carney, musical director, and Prof. Don Dixon, stage director, will provide the only non-identent help.
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for the opera.
Charles Byers, education senior,
will sing the tenor role of Nanki-Foo,
the hero. Harriet Harlow, fine arts
juniur, will be the soprano lead of
Yum-Yum.
Perpignan, Feb. 9 — (UP) — Air, sea, land and communications traffic between France and Spain will be resumed for the first time in two years when the French-Spanish frontier is opened at midnight to night.
Yum-Yum.
Other principals will be Mrs. Mary Kearns, Eilinger Beyers, fine arts senior; as Katisha; Harry Spencer, education junior, as Ko-Ko; Charles O'Connor, College junior, as the emperor; Vincent May, education senior; as Pish-Tush; Dorothy O'Connor, fine arts sophomore, as Piti-Sing; Bernadine Read, fine arts sophomore; as Peep-Bo.
Spain-France Border Opens
Problems common to the state schools were discussed today by presidents of the five Kansas state colleges and universities at a meeting here.
Officials said it will be several days before traffic is normal. Two railway lines and two roads cross the mountainous border, but only one of each will be opened for the time being.
The French carried off several miles of track from the other railway line, which ends at Tour de Carel on the French side, and the line will not be repaired for several days.
days.
One of the automobile routes also remains closed because a bridge between Bourg-Madame and the Spanish frontier, destroyed during the Spanish civil war, never has been rebuilt.
Hundreds of French tried to jump the gun and cross into Spain to shop yesterday, but they were turned back by customs officials.
College Presidents Discuss Problems
Only one telephone line is functioning now but others probably will be ready by tomorrow, officials said.
Attending were Million Eisenhower, Kansas State college; David L. MacFarlane, Kansas State Teachers college, Emporia; Rees H. Hughes, Kansas State Teachers college, Pittsburg; L. D. Wooster, Fort Hays Kansas State Teachers college, Hays; and Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
Little Man On Campus
"That's just the way she came in last fall, and I never did see her in anything 'cept them jeans."
Expenses Will Eat Up That Increase, Couples Say
Five married veterans and their wives interviewed today by the University Daily Kansan said that they spend the increased allowance on the G.I. bill "to meet expenses."
Meeting expenses on $90 a month, has been a "terrific strain," they said. Now they feel they can have a little more lee-way.
Professor Fan is a native of China. He came to the United States in 1846 after several years of study in Paris. He spent one year at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and joined the Notre Dame faculty in September. 1947.
To live on $90 a month month old baby was "impossible," said Mrs. Bob F. Barnes, whose husband is a business senior. She added that it would still be impossible on $120, but that "it would help a great deal."
Jack B. Berley, business senior, said that his family was hardly meeting expenses. This increase in pay will help them out "a great deal."
deal. Paying off the dentist bill will take part of the increased pay, and the rest will go to expenses for the Milford O. Brown's. Brown is a College junior.
Ky Fan, associate professor of mathematics at Notre Dame, will speak at the Mathematical Colloquium at 5 p.m. today in room 211, Frank Strong hall. His subject will be "Functional Representation of Partially Ordered Additive Groups" (Chi.
Mrs. Marcelle Gass, a business junior and her husband Gaylord, College senior, said that they were not able to live on $90 a month, and she doubted if they could live on $105. She added that she and her husband have a savings account on which they have been drawing.
WEATHER
which they will. The increased allowance will make possible a savings account for Mrs. Dorothy Beach, College senior, and her husband, Richard C., engineering sophomore.
Ky Fan To Speak To Math Colloquium
Kansas—Fair, somewhat warmer,
central and east today.
Truman May Speak At MU
Washington, Feb. 9- (UP—President Truman today made tentative plans to speak at the University of Missouri on May 5 during the university's annual journalism week.
The tentative arrangements were discussed with the president by Dean Frank L. Mott of the university on behalf of the university and the Missouri State Press association, Dean Mott invited the president to attend a memorial service honoring the late Lt. Gov. William R. Painter, past president of the association, a famous Carrollton, Mo., editor and an old friend of the president.
White House secretary Charles G. Ross said Mr. Truman could not say definitely today whether he could make the trip but promised to give the invitation "sympathetic consideration."
Dr. A. H. Turney, guidance bureau director, will attend the third annual meeting of the Big Seven directors of vocational guidance at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Feb. 19, 20, and 21.
Ross said that if the president goes to Columbia, he will speak on Wednesday. May 5. Journalism week extends from May 3 to May 8.
Dr. Turney To Attend Meeting In Oklahoma
E. G. Kennedy, counselor and specialist in occupational information, and William C. Cottle, counselor and supervisor of laboratory practice in counseling, will also attend the meeting as guests of Mr. Turney.
Judge Means Rules On Ellis Library
University, Widow Have Equal Shares; Appeal To Supreme Court
Some Retailers Cut Food Prices
Chicago, Feb. 9—(UP)—Grocers and butchers in cities across the country slashed prices today on meat, flour, bread and lard, but experts were undecided on whether the price drops reflected last week's break in the commodity markets.
"This week will tell the story," a Chicago retailers' representative said. "If the commodity markets continue lower, more retail prices will hit the skids."
Butchers shops reported markdowns on bacon, ham, pork and beefsteaks. Bacon, the so-called "barometer" of meat prices, led the way.
The big chain stores led the way in slashing prices. One nation-wide group knocked a cent off the price of a 20-ounce leaf of bread. Lard was reduced as much as 20 per cent. Flour went down 10 per cent in some towns.
Most retail food association spokesmen seemed to think the retail markdowns resulted from a general market decline during the past month rather than from the spectacular break in grain prices Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Inexperienced in other sections of the course, as indeed, however, that it might take two or three weeks for the full effect of the sharp commodity reductions to work their way down to the housewife's level.
to the housewife. The National Association of Retail stores at New York attributed the slashes in retail prices today to increased competition rather than to lower prices on the commodity markets.
"The items being reduced are really only 'loss leaders' in an increased fight for customers," a spokesman for the N.A.R.G. said. One official of a Boston chain firm warned houswives against rushing to their stores to stock up on the lower-priced foods.
"That would simply push prices up again," he said. ___
Increase In GI's Studying Overseas
A 350 percent increase in the number of veterans studying abroad under the G.I. bill during the past year was indicated in a recent Veteran's administration bulletin.
Total enrollment of the ex-servicemen and women studying in 44 countries jumped from 1,307 last year to 6,055 this year.
Nearly half of the students are enrolled in schools in the Philippine Islands. Filipinos who served in the U.S. armed forces comprise most of that group. Canada ranks second and France third in number of veterans studying under the G.I. bill.
Veterans may enroll in schools in foreign countries under the bill, but they must arrange for their own passports and transportation.
Democrats To Hear Rice
Carl V. Rice, Kansas City attorney and Democratic national committeeman, will speak before a meeting of the Young Democrat's club at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the East Side of the Union
The long drawn-out legal struggle between Mrs. Irene Ellis and the University for possession of the $200,000 Ralph Ellis natural history library ended at least temporarily today with both parties holding equal rights in the library.
By overruling motions of attorneys for both parties for a new trial, Judge Hugh Means stuck to his decision of Dec. 21, 1947 when he ruled that Mrs. Ellis and the University were entitled to equal shares in the collection.
Judge Means required only 10 minutes to review the case and to announce his decision before a half-filled court room.
Attorneys for both parties announced that they would appeal the case to the state supreme court. Lawyers For Case
The unique case, which has been strung out for over two years, began early in 1946 when the University presented documents for probate as a will of Ellis.
Representing the University are attorneys George Melvin, A. B. Mitchell, and L. P. Brooks. Attorneys for Ellis' widow are Edward G. Kelly, of Oakland, Calif., John Brand and Robert Stone.
Ellis, who died at Colusa, Calif. Dec. 17, 1945, had signed the documents along with University officials on May 3, 1945, giving the University title to his library when he died. Mrs. Ellis, court records show, was present when the documents were signed and "heart, read, and knew the contents and purport of the documents." Coutets Will
Attorney for Ellis' 23-year-old widow filed a motion for a new trial. The motion was granted by Judge Means and the arguments were presented during July. On December 21, Judge Means ruled that both parties were entitled to equal shares.
Contest. Ellis will was contested by Mrs. Ellis and in the summer of 1946, Judge Frank R. Gray ruled that the library to be the property of Mrs. Ellis on the grounds that the documents were not a will of Ralph Ellis, and that Ellis was incompetent to contract to make a will.
The University appealed to the district court, and on April 21, 1947, Judge Means ruled that the agreement offered for probate was not a will. But he held the library to be the property of the University on the grounds that Ellis was competent and knew what he wanted to do with the library. File For New Trial
The library, now stored in the basement of Frank强牢 hall, contains some 60,000 volumes on birds and mammals, including some rare editions. Two railway cars were required to bring the huge collection from Ellis' California home to the University in June, 1945. No one has been allowed to use the library since his death.
AWS Counselors To Give Breakfast
The Associated Women Students counseling committee will have a breakfast for new women students and their counselors on Saturday from 9 to 11 a.m. in the Kansas room of the Union.
The breakfast is to give the new women students an opportunity to become acquainted with their counselors.
Reservations should be made by the counselors at the dean of women's office or by calling Geraldine Ott or Ardyce Wilson by Thursday.