University Daily Kansan
Lawrence, Kansas
These 11 Men Want To Be Leap Year King
Eleven candidates will compete for the title of leap year king tonight at the March of Dimes dance being sponsored by Alpha Phi Omega, service fraternity The dance will be held in the Union ballroom from 9 p.m. to 12 midnight.
The candidates, in order of standing at the close of voting yesterday are:
James Gordon Bennett, Jr., Pr. Kappa Alpha; Jesse Edwin Stewart, Beta Theta Pi; James Marion Jasper, Independent; Joseph Edward Daly, Phi Kappa; Richard A. Wegner, Lambda Chi Alpha; Harold Dexter Pershing, Sigma Kappa Phi; Robert Leo McNeive, Sigma Phi Epsilon; Clifford Charles McDonald, Sigma Chi; Dale Albert Spiegel, Al-
ona Kappa Kappa; Harry William Tyrrell, Kappa Sigma; and Richard Nevin Millikan, Alpha Tau Omega Pictures On Display
Pictures of the candidates are on display at the voting booth on the main floor of the Union.
Voting will continue at the dance until intermission, when the name of the winning candidate will be announced. The king will be crowned by Gloria Hill, 1947 Jayhawker queen, in a coronation ceremony during the intermission
Approximately $200 has been contributed to the drive to date, said Robert Petitt, chairman of the March of Dimes committee. This figure includes contributions from a few of the organized houses, balloting for the leap year king, and coverage of the registration line during enrollment. A total of $1,100 was raised last year, Petitt said. Collections at Games
The dance tonight, with Wayne Ruppenthal's orchestra and vocalist Sid Dawson, will climax the University campaign. Hose and heels and suits are to be the dress, Petitt stated.
Collections at the Nebraska and Missouri basketball games Feb.7 and 9 will conclude the drive. These will be taken up by the Ku Ku's and Jay James and turned in to Alpha Phi Omega.
Eire May Get New Leader
Dublin, Feb. 6—(UP)—Resignation of Prime Minister Eman De Valera after 16 years in office was predicted by political observers today when combined opposition parties forged ahead of the government party 53 to 52 in the Irish parliamentary elections.
During the campaign De Valera stated frequently that he would not remain as prime minister over the new parliament unless the voters gave him 75 seats for a clearcut majority of the 147 seats at stake.
The heavy early victory of De Valera's Flianna Fall party slowed up as the counting progressed and the combined six opposition parties began to fill seats in many areas as veteran observers had predicted.
One of the greatest upsets of the election was the collapse of the Clamn Na Poblachta, headed by Sean Mac-Bride, 42-year-old Dublin attorney, which pre-election forecasts said would emerge with at least 39 seats. According to the present trend, Mac-Bride's party will win no more than 15.
WEATHER
Kansas-Farmland cloudy northeast. Occasional intermittent freezing drizzle southeast. Light snow west today. Light intermittent snow tomorrow. Little change in temperature. High today in 20's.
"Well, you seem to have the physical requirements."
Animal House Is Remodeled
Rabbits, mice, moles, and muskrat in the University animal house are having their home infested with carpenters these days.
Amidst flying sawdust in the house, located at the foot of the hill behind the power plant, the little bunnies calmly nibble their lettuce and the rats scurry back and forth, disinterested in the renovation. House Remodeled
House Remodeled
The animal house is being remodeled for zoology classrooms and research laboratories.
By-products from the animals—their skin and skulls—are sometimes saved and mounted in Dvehe museum for further study. Other animals, still alive, convesence in the animal house after being used as guinea pigs for physiology study.
The laboratories will be used by graduate students, under the direction of Dr. William C. Young, professor of anatomy, for mammalian sterility research, sponsored by the United States Health service.
Other research will be done by zoology and entomology students on all species of chiggers—from the small garden variety which annoy us in the summer to the largest type which live on frogs.
So far, research has discovered that there are over 500 varieties of chiggers, maybe 1,000, while only a few years ago there were only 60 species known to science. The chiggers used in research are removed from animals used for other zoology courses. Tiny white specks on the animals under a microscope become another variety of chiggers.
And in another part of the animal house, a colony of durmestid bettles work for the zoologists—removing meat from bones of animals and birds trapped for the osteological collection. The beetles can clean a carcas in a little less than a week. Bones are completely cleaned in an ammonia solution, which softens and removes the remaining meat and bleaches the bones. Bones are then washed, cataloged, and stored in the museum for study and comparison with any new type of bird or animal which may be found. The beetles also have to be fed other meat occasionally.
Br. Productions
Flenty Of Chiggers
Animals, like students, have demanded improved campus quarters for the role they play in education.
Call For TB-Shot Results At Watkins Hospital
Students who have not yet inquired about the results of their tuberculin test at Watkins Memorial hospital should do so as quickly as possible. Clinic hours are from 8 to 12 a.m. and 2 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Corsages will be judged for several prizes to be given at the Jay Jane Vice-Versa dance from 9 to midnight Saturday in the Military Science building.
Judges will be Miss Florence Black, professor of mathematics. Maude Elliot, Spanish professor, and Mr. and Mrs. Dean Nesmith. He is the athletic department trainer.
Award Prizes For Corsages
The women make the corsages for the date of their choice and the results are conversation pieces. Materials used range from all varieties of garden vegetables to soap wrappers, adhesive tape ribbons, cigarette and matchstick concoctions, and ordinary crepe paper.
Last year's winner was an orange peel octopus with carrot strip tentacles.
Michael F. "Mike" Ahearn, 69,
former athletic director at Kansas
State College of Manhattan died at
St. Mary's hospital in Topeka Thursday
night.
Mike Ahearm Dies In Topeka Hospital
Abearn had been seriously ill for the hospital Thursday noon when several months, and was rushed to he lapsed into a coma. He did not regain consciousness.
Job Changers: Call Employment Bureau
Men who want jobs or are changing or quitting them should call the University's men's employment bureau, Fred Amelung, employment counsel, said today.
There are not enough jobs open to meet the increased demand for them. Mr. Amelung added.
Persons interested in part time jobs should call K. U. 215 for further information.
State Asks For Separate Schools
Oklahoma City, Feb. 6—(UP)—Leaders of the Oklahoma legislature ended an extraordinary strategy session at the capitol early today after endorsing continued segregation of the races in state schools.
The lawmakers told state regents for higher education that they favored "such steps as necessary to institute and maintain separate schools of higher learning for Negroes with functions and facilities substantially equal to those afforded white students."
The action by the legislative leaders, who were called into the capitol late yesterday by Gov. Roy J. Turner, may clear the way for the state regents to request a special session of the Oklahoma legislature to deal with segregation problems. The next regular lawmaking session is due early in 1949.
A spokesman for the regents was reported to have told the lawmakers that the U. S. supreme court's mandate in the Ada Sipuel Fisher case may require the special legislative session—either to repeal Oklahoma segregation laws or to appropriate hundreds of thousands needed for additional Negro schools.
Presumably, Governor Turner called the lawmaking chiefs into session in the belief that the U. S. supreme court may term the state's new Negro law school inadequate.
The school, with a faculty of three, was set up in the capitol after the high tribunal ruled that Mrs. Fisher, a Negro seeking admission to University of Oklahoma, should be afforded equal educational facilities immediately.
Mrs. Fisher's attorneys are now attempting to get the U. S. court to order her admission to O.U. on grounds that the new school is not equal to the university law school.
Petitt Fills APO Vacancy
Robert Petit, College sophomore, was elected treasurer of Alpha Phi Omega, service fraternity, at a special election last night. He will succeed Charles Howard, who resigned.
Howard's resignation was accepted at the opening of the meeting. Conflicting interests and duties which prevented him from giving full attention to his position prompted the action, Howard stated in a letter to the other members of the organization.
A report on the March of Dimes campaign was given by Petitt. chairman of the committee, and final arrangements for the March of Dimes dance tonight were discussed.
Coffeyville Fire Destroys 2 Stores
Coffeyville, Feb] 6,—(UP)—Two buildings were destroyed and a third damaged by water and smoke in a blazing three-hour fire here Thursday.
Fanned by a brisk north wind, the flames threatened an entire block in the business district before firemen brought them under control.
'Fall Of Stocks Doesn't Mean Break In Prices'
By LOIS LAUER
The sharp downward plunge in commodity and stock market prices does not mean the end of inflation, according to Leslie Waters and Johnise, professors of economics at the University.
The United Press reported today that grain prices were going downward for the third day in a row in a major market break that many experts believed would be the end of the inflationary food spiral. Stock 'Jitters'
"I do not look for the general price level to go down," Professor waters said. "The prices of some raw materials may go down, but they will not go down very far, and manufactured products will probably continue at present levels."
The New York stock market, in what Professor Waters termed "the sympathetic jitters," fell in a two-day break that wiped out around $1 \frac{1}{2}$ billion dollars in market valuations.
"Whenever you have gone through a long period of inflation, you have an erratic market," Professor Waters said. "Actually, the stock market has not moved regularly at all with commodity prices. While prices were going up, stocks were going down. They are already at the lowest point in relation to earnings in their history. I see no reason why they should drop very far now." "Shows Uncertainty."
Professor Ise said that the market situation evidently showed some uncertainty by the nation's business men.
"But I haven't any idea whether the decline will continue and give us much lower prices, or whether we will presently find prices going on up again," he said.
"It's about 25 years too late to get any predictions from me. I don't expect prices to go down very far, but much depends on two things—the extent of our exports under the Marshall plan, and the question of tax reduction."
Professor Waters pointed out that in 1947, the United States exported seven billion dollars more than it imported. Therefore if the Marshall plan continues this excess of exports, prices will remain about the present level. Professor Ise added that if congress should decide to reduce the Marshall plan by any great amount, it might start prices on a downward trend.
National Experts Warehouse
Richard Uhlmann, president of the Chicago board of trade, said "We've definitely seen the peak of the food price spiral."
National Experts Worried
National financial experts expressed a more worried view of the situation.
A. W. Zelomek of the International Statistical bureau in New York predicted the release of vitally needed goods by jittery speculators when prices began to drop.
Joseph M. Dodge, president of the American Bankers association, warned the public that this was an indication of the "completely unrealistic price structure on which the country has been operated."
Levenson To Address University Groups
Rabbit Joseph Levenson of Oklahoma City will address the Jewish Student Union at 8 p.m. Feb. 10 in Myers hall. After the meeting, the group will have an informal coffee hour with students of other denominations in the Union building.
An ex-army chaplain, Rabbi Levenson will address several University groups and Lawrence organizations by the Brotherhood Week activities committee.